A mobility scooter rider who went viral after pinning down a couple abusing a school bus driver has been cleared of assault after the case was thrown out of court.
Didn't even get to a jury! The magistrates weren't having any...
Richard Holt, 53, was filmed driving over the woman and hitting the man, while yelling: 'Get the f*** out of my town'. The one-legged amputee reacted after watching the man open the doors of a school bus and squirt liquid at the driver in Hull, East Yorkshire.
And of course, as seems usual these days, they weren't troubled by arrest.
Magistrates today kicked out the case after the pair - named as Jason Morfitt and Alison Whittaker - failed to turn up at a trial to give evidence.
The inference being, if they had, it would have gone ahead, I suppose?
His lawyer, Ian Phillip, said: 'The defendant went to the police station after the video spread on social media and vigorously denied matters, saying he was defending himself and others, and preventing crime.'
Stephen Downing, prosecuting, said the couple had claimed they were 'abused' by schoolchildren who 'assumed they were homeless people'.
He said: 'Obviously they objected to that, and there was some sort of remonstration with people on the bus.
'The defendant was arrested and interviewed and basically he argued that whatever he did was in self defence. His opinion of the situation was different to what the two prosecution witnesses felt the situation was.'
But since they didn't feel strongly enough about it to turn up....
1 comment:
Some magistrates would have just continued with the case but maybe it is getting through to these entitled lawmakers that the public is getting fed up with it.
My didn't the bus driver make a complaint though?
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