No one will ever know if it was racially motivated or not. However th original trial spent 6 weeks with no jury...just the lawyers and teh judge determining if it was racially motivated or not as the charge of GBH with racially motivated intent is higher. They came to the conclusion it wasn't racially motivated as there was no evidence to suggest this. The only evidence they had was that someone in a white shirt when the original brawl took chase yelled 'do you want some paki?'. However the Najeib witnesses said that the person in the white shirt was not part of the chase or fight and so were not even sure if we was with the Bowyer/Woodgate group. Thus they ruled out any racist intent by the chasing group as they hadn't expressed any racial intent.
This could have been the right decision or the wrong one. I don't agree that it can be clear cut either way. However a judge and lawyers spent a considerable amount of time and tax payers money determining this. The police officer is entitled to his opinion still but the judge/lawyers did not hold the same opinion.
As for this whole Bowyer transfer mess it's unbelievable that after the crap Leeds fans have taken for having him in their team for the last 18 months that once he is cleared of charges (rightly or wrongly...who really knows what happened?) that he will be sold by the club.
Can someone wake me up when this nightmare that is suppporting Leeds United ends? Because that's all it feels like these days
