Up on assualt and bribary charges on Mickinos Greek island. An incident along with 2 of his mates where numerous police injured. Nice going that ........
I remember in one of the Redfearn's Bar interviews this summer, an ex Red saying he was in a Greek bar with Gerry Taggart drinking sambuccas and for a bet they set his chest alight. As you do. Spent the night in a Greek hospital rather than flying back for pre season training. Something about footballers in Greek bars....
@riddledblues2 Twitter account has a funny Harry Maguire tweet photo that can't be posted on here but made me laugh.
Have a friend in Mykonos who knows what happened. He said Maguire's being framed and it's made to look a worse than it actually was. Turns out someone punched him in the back of the head on Wednesday night, and he hit out in self defence. Trouble is, by the time he'd turned around it was Friday morning and he hit an innocent bystander.
Credit to the Greek justice system. That's how you deal with someone quickly instead of over here waiting ages for Malik Wilks and still waiting for Joey Barton.
Unless the defendant pleads guilty, how can a trial of a foreign defendant within 5 days of arrest possibly be fair?
Anagnostakis, a leading human rights lawyer, who often defends Britons who get into trouble in Greece, said the brawl had been set off when Maguire learned his sister had been attacked by two men. Describing the pair as Albanians he said they had deliberately “injected” the 20-year-old with a substance that had caused her to instantly faint. Ashden Morley, a friend of the Maguires called by the defence to corroborate the incident, said the group suspected she had been injected with a rape drug after Hawkins noticed Daisy’s eyes “rolling back in her head”. The group had called the driver of their rented van to take them to the island’s health clinic but found themselves being driven instead to the police station, the lawyer claimed. Some of the most dramatic moments in the courtroom came when Morley, aged 27, a quantity surveyor, said the group thought they were going to be kidnapped by men chasing them in cars behind the media. “Our bus door opened and five or six males tried to force us off by physically pulling us,” he said recounting the scenes and fear that they were about to be “held at ransom”
Well the defendant didn't have to leave the country for a start. Why does him being foreign really make much difference to how long it should take to go to trial? People over here are up in court the day after an offence sometimes.
Maybe because it's harder for him to instruct a lawyer, co-ordinate someone to gather witness statements from people who would have been present etc. It's pretty obvious that it's going to be a lot more difficult to arrange an effective defence to a charge in a different country. People over here aren't up in court for a full trial the day after an offence are they?