A GREENWICH PUB MANAGER WAS ACQUITED BY AN OLD BAI

A GREENWICH PUB MANAGER WAS ACQUITED BY AN OLD BAILEY
JURY OF WOUNDING TWO TROUBLESOME CUSTOMERS AFTER CLAIMING HE DID
NOT ATTACK THEM.

JOHN HARNEY,29 YEAR OLD MANAGER OF THE ROYAL ALBERT PUB
IN BLACKHEATH ROAD, GREENWICH DENIED ASSAULTING THE TWO MEN WITH
A PICK AXE HANDLE AFTER THEY UNWITTINGLY WALKED INTO A PRIVATE
PARTY.

THE TWO FRIENDS DAVID FULLER, A SOLDIER ON LEAVE FROM
HIS BASE IN GERMANY AND VALETIN EBEIGBE,31, OF THE HONOR QAK
ESTATE, BROCKLEY WERE ASKED TO LEAVE THE PUB AFTER THE INCIDENT
THE OLD BAILEY HEARD.

BUT HARNEY TOLD POLICE DURING LATER QUESTIONING THAT
AFTER ASKING THE PAIR TO LEAVE THEY ‘BECAME DIFFICULT.

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BUT HE DENIED ASSAULTING THE TWO FRIENDS AND SAID HE DID NOT
EVEN KNOW
THAT ‘ANY PICK AXE HANDLES WERE IN THE PUB.

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HARNEY CLAIMED THE TWO MEN WERE INJURED IN THE SCUFFLE
WHILE THEY WERE BEING EVICTED BUU THAT ANY INJURIES THE PAIR
SUFFERED WERE CAUSED IN SELF DEFENCE.

HARNEY WAS CLEARED OF WOUNDING BOTH MEN WITH INTENT TO
CAUSE THEM GREVIOUS BODILY HARM AND UNLAWFUL WOUNDING ON JANUARY
5 LAST YEAR.

TWO BOUNCERS WHO WERE ALSO ALLEGED TO HAVE TAKEN PART IN
THE ATTACK GARY RICHARDSON,22, OF ALGERNON ROAD, LEWISHAM AND
RICHARD PRICE, OF ERSKIN HOUSE, SPRINGFIELD GROVE, CHARLTON WERE
CLEARED BY THE JURY OF THE SAME CHARGES.

BOTH HAD DENIED
TAKING ANY PART IN THE ASSULT AT ALL.

ENDS.

OK MIK I PUT THE SECOND ONE OVER AGAIN BECAUSE IT SEEMED GARBLED

FIRST TIME ROUND SPEAK TO YOU LATER.

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