Max Evans assault trial

Glas a du wrote:Or he has an actual alibi.

Glas a du wrote:There is one more sick than that Alun which I'm ashamed just came to me. You don't have to post what comes into your head mind.

I'll go for this one instead:

"I was knocking off some famous celebrity who shall remain nameless as she has taken a super-injunction out against me" ha! What would the court do then?

In the nightclub, he was “merry” through drink but knew what was happening. He was in a VIP lounge drinking champagne with a woman, Sarah Jane Bell, when someone called out: “Evans, what are you doing in Edinburgh? F*** off back to Glasgow.”

He said: “It could have been a friend just being an idiot and I turned to see who was talking to me. I did not recognise the gentleman and I just ignored it.”

Over the next 20 minutes, the man chipped in with insulting comments, such as calling Evans and his brother faggots. Evans continued to ignore him, he said. Ms Bell took his hand to lead him out of the lounge.

“He said ‘Sorry about tonight, mate. Sorry if I have been hard on you.’ It was not a sincere apology. He said, ‘I still think you and your brother are faggots’.

“I said, ‘What’s your problem?’ I think I used the word ‘p****’. He then assaulted me with his right arm … it caught me on the side of the face,” Evans said. He said he had felt threatened. “I put my hand out to push him away … to defend myself … I did not realise I had the glass in my hand.”

An earlier witness had said no-one deserved a glass in the face for verbally abusing someone, and Evans said he agreed. But he was 100 per cent certain Mr McCaig had physically assaulted him. “I know I never meant to cause Mr McCaig any harm. I was merely trying to defend myself,” he said.

Dev Kapadia, prosecuting, suggested: “You felt he had gone a step too far with his verbal abuse and in the spur of the moment the red mist came over you and you punched him.”

Evans replied: “He had not overstepped his mark verbally, he had overstepped his mark by attacking me.”

Mr Kapadia: “Whether you realised you had the glass in your hand is neither here nor there, you had formed an intention to punch him.”

Evans: “No, it was a reaction. There was no thought process to punch him.”

RDW_Scotland wrote:Delighted he's been cleared. From all accounts the guy prosecuting him sounded like a total scumbag and blatantly lied when he said he'd been doing nothing wrong and Evans bottled him out the blue - all the witnesses said he'd been abusing Max all night.

Saying that, not sure I buy Max saying he didn't remember he had a bottle in his hand, but glad he's free to play and put it all behind him!

tecphobe wrote:

RDW_Scotland wrote:Delighted he's been cleared. From all accounts the guy prosecuting him sounded like a total scumbag and blatantly lied when he said he'd been doing nothing wrong and Evans bottled him out the blue - all the witnesses said he'd been abusing Max all night.

Saying that, not sure I buy Max saying he didn't remember he had a bottle in his hand, but glad he's free to play and put it all behind him!

Evans sounds like the scumbag to be honest. I didn't like what the drunk guy said to me so i bottled him is the subtext. I didn't realise i had the bottle in my hand. what a load of guff.

George Carlin wrote:Juries don't throw cases out in an hour unless the circumstances were pretty cut and dried. The guy sounds like a lunatic.

eirebilly wrote:Evans may well have not realised that he had something in his hand if it was reactionary. Surely i cant be the only person on here who has hit himself in the head with something i forgot i was in my hand when swatting away a fly?

Glad he has been cleared though, what happend to the other guy, has he also been cleared?