If everyone who knows Maguire says he is a mellow chap who isn't violent at all and the police themselves testified that he wasn't that drunk then it stands to reason that in order for him to become violent there must be a reason and certainly he wouldn't be attacking police officers if they were identified as police.
I've seen this mentioned a few times, but like, what do you expect them to say?
Factor in the fact that the police and locals in general probably have their hands full with unruly Brits during the summer, then you’re probably not far off the mark. Although all this is all speculation. Most important thing is that people on here shouldn’t prejudice Greece as some kind of backward banana state.
Yep it seems like they'd decided he was guilty no matter what happened.
Not if its to speed up prosecution due to the enormous amounts of court cases of drunken Brits getting in to trouble, as is the case in Amsterdam. Do you have any idea how much it costs to detain and prosecute people?
Or people who have had bad experiences with him would be coming forward. You know like other public figures who are accused of crimes.
This is key. Am not sure why everyone keeps going on about his sister’s alleged misfortune. It has nothing, zero, nada to do with the charges that he faces. No judge will even take them into account as altering his emotional state.
This sounds like the events from Maquire's perspective but it doesn't sound like evidence was really required.
Have you often heard people say in that type of situations that their friend is violent and is definitely capable of doing something like that? Personally, I don''t know, I don't know the context of the alleged altercation, I don't know the police officers either and therefore I won't go out of my way to claim that one side is more honest than the other.
This isn't just a case of somebody being the worse the wear for drink. It was supposedly more serious than that.
That's true. Why was Maguire back in England at the time of the trial?
My apologies, I worded that poorly. I meant evidence that the thing with the sister actually occured. People here seem convinced it did, so I wondered why.
Of course it does. One thing led directly to the other.
Don't know. They just let him go home. Maybe lucky. If he was there they might have locked him up.
He was trialed for misdemeanors. Had it been a more serious case then he’d most likely still be held in custody awaiting trial.
I'd take a guess that he had been told it would ll go away with a small fine or acquittal. Either that or he wanted as far away from the Greek police as possible.
It’s not just a bar fight though is it?
A witness said something happened with his sister, as to what there are various stories doing the rounds. Thing is that witness would not be called as it is not what Harry was charged with, but the original incident led to the later incidents.
I have interacted with Police who have made mistakes and they held their hands up and correctly dropped the charge. The thing to do with the Police is to not upset them. You would do well to take this advice.
I don't think we can be sure of anything but we have heard that this is what happened and evidence in a case like this requires witnesses, and there were none for the defense.
It’s like VAR - how far you want to go back? It was at a different location. Anyways seems like judge has taken that stance.
You don't actually think you get off with attacking a police officer in the UK as long as no one else is watching and it's not on video do you? Testimony is evidence by the way
If the first incident hadn't happened he would not be at any of the other locations.
In this country you would be exceptionally lucky for it not to be on video. Just about everything is caught on camera.
It is nothing like VAR.
God help any of your family, if they are in trouble, clearly they could not depend on you for any help!
He's just not that sort of player, Spanner.
Well that is injustice and at odds with the the beyond a reasonable doubt standards we take for granted and why a guilty verdict may not be as clean cut as people act like it is...
Which is even worse, you don't exactly expect him to be violent and drunk in a football setting?
Except it's not because most places aren't city centres. My sister as a copper was pushed down the stairs twice, attacked with knives and run over, all those people got done without any video evidence.
If they were wearing plain clothes and didn't announce themselves before attempting an arrest then yes, they'd be in the wrong and the charges would be dropped.
Ah come on, there's a stark difference between someone being a bit of a bellend who likes to get in drunken fights and such and a fecking paedo or rapist. Obviously people are going to come forward more for the latter.
Or they know the type who are those kind of pricks?
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This more or less is my take on it as well. My knowledge of date rape drugs is minimal at best but I thought the whole point was to slip something in their drink so it goes undetected, not stick a feckin needle in her arm for everyone to see. If it did happen then that's a big story in itself with obvious connections to contagious diseases being a big factor and it apparently wasn't brought up at trial which it should of been due to mitigating circumstances.
And yet the press do run the footballer in 'do you know who I am' bar fight stories.
