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UKian actor Stephen Tomkinson has been acquitted of assault causing Grevious Bodily Harm.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...nson-found-not-guilty-of-grievous-bodily-harm
The actor Stephen Tompkinson has been found not guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm on a drunken man he confronted outside his home.
Tompkinson, a familiar face on television programmes from Drop the Dead Donkey to DCI Banks, had been accused of lashing out at Karl Poole who was, with a friend, drinking at the end of the actor’s driveway in the early hours of the morning.
The prosecution said Tompkinson had “snapped” and punched Poole, who fell to the ground and suffered a fractured skull when his head hit the pavement.
Tompkinson told jurors he only pushed Poole away in self-defence and the contact “wasn’t enough to knock a sober man off his feet”.
On Thursday, a jury at Newcastle crown court found Tompkinson not guilty.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...nson-found-not-guilty-of-grievous-bodily-harm
The actor Stephen Tompkinson has been found not guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm on a drunken man he confronted outside his home.
Tompkinson, a familiar face on television programmes from Drop the Dead Donkey to DCI Banks, had been accused of lashing out at Karl Poole who was, with a friend, drinking at the end of the actor’s driveway in the early hours of the morning.
The prosecution said Tompkinson had “snapped” and punched Poole, who fell to the ground and suffered a fractured skull when his head hit the pavement.
Tompkinson told jurors he only pushed Poole away in self-defence and the contact “wasn’t enough to knock a sober man off his feet”.
On Thursday, a jury at Newcastle crown court found Tompkinson not guilty.
