‘I was ecstatic when the pubs re-opened’

A plumber was so ecstatic by the pubs re-opening after the first lockdown he ended up assaulting a railway worker, a court heard. Joseph Bennett, 33, gave a ‘very honest’ explanation for hitting station worker Golam Choudhury at London Bridge station on June 16 last year. ‘He was in such an ecstatic state that he had found an open pub,’ his lawyer Moira McFarlane told Westminster Magistrates’ Court. ‘He lived alone so he was locked up in lockdown and he…