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Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:03 am**

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has arrived at court to stand trial in connection with a fight at a Merseyside nightclub last year.

The 29-year-old is due before Liverpool Crown Court with six others and denies a charge of affray relating to the incident at Southport's Lounge Inn.

A 34-year-old businessman was injured at the bar on 29 December.

Mr Gerrard, from Formby, Merseyside, had been celebrating Liverpool's 5-1 win over Newcastle United.

The other defendants include Accrington Stanley goalkeeper Ian Dunbavin, 28, of Guildford Road, Southport and Accrington midfielder Robert Grant, 18, of Enstone Avenue, Litherland.

Four men from Huyton, Merseyside, are also charged. They are: John McGrattan, 33, of Rimmer Avenue; Paul McGrattan, 31, of Linden Drive; John Doran, 29, of Woodlands Road; Ian Smith, 19, of Hilary Avenue.

The trial is expected to last two weeks.

GOOD LUCK STEVIE LAD,

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:05 am**

Stevie will be not guilty...

... I hope.

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:06 am**

Feckin waste of time this, some murderers dont even have a two week trial its the bizzies being funny.

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:11 am**

SPOT ON CIGG Its disgraceful ,

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:13 am**

but its a footballer, and they shouldn't get special treatment...
If it was any other player we'd be saying different...

and its a 2 week trial including all men charged, not just Stevie

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:25 am**

dawson99 wrote:but its a footballer, and they shouldn't get special treatment...
If it was any other player we'd be saying different...

and its a 2 week trial including all men charged, not just Stevie

Daws if Stevie wasnt involved it wouldnt have even got to trail, he had a cut lip ffs, It happens every night of the week, , This manc b,astard is after compo thats it,

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:29 am**

NANNY RED wrote:The trial is expected to last two weeks.

WTF?

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:42 am**

CCTV will be used to show him being involved, it is said that it shows him trying to punch someone but the punch no hitting anyone. Another cctv shows him with a upside down bottle in his hands falling over by the DJ stand.

Affray in English Law

A person is guilty of affray if he uses or threatens unlawful violence towards another and the person's conduct is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety.
Where two or more persons use or threaten the unlawful violence, it is the conduct of them taken together that must be considered for the purpose of subsection .

Ramifications

Three years imprisonment and/or a fine on indictment; six months imprisonment and/or a fine summarily

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:45 am**

NANNY RED wrote:
dawson99 wrote:but its a footballer, and they shouldn't get special treatment...
If it was any other player we'd be saying different...

and its a 2 week trial including all men charged, not just Stevie

Daws if Stevie wasnt involved it wouldnt have even got to trail, he had a cut lip ffs, It happens every night of the week, , This manc b,astard is after compo thats it,

The Manc b*stard as you so elequantly put it

dropped the charges soon after the event. Its the CPS that are persuing it. One good thing to come out of it is he won't get injured in some nonsence pre season friendly against some over enthusiastic tiddly wink.

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:45 am**

2 weeks,

sake!

Nanny and Cigg are spot on. its a :censored:

cut lip not a fractured skull. This bloke should take his money grabbing greedy @rse somewhere else and leave our Stevie alone. t0sser

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:47 am**

He will most likely get a heavy fine and be bound over for 12 months.

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:48 am**

Greavesie wrote:2 weeks, sake! Nanny and Cigg are spot on. its a cut lip not a fractured skull. This bloke should take his money grabbing greedy @rse somewhere else and leave our Stevie alone. t0sser

if you tried to knife someone but only cut their lip it would not matter that it was only a cut lip, its said he tried to use a bottle and a fist. if he is found to have done it he will have a problem.

its 2 weeks due to the court needing to look at all of the others aswell, he might only be there for 1 to 2 days then go back to hear the result.

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:49 am**

ste123lfc wrote:He will most likely get a heavy fine and be bound over for 12 months.

thats what i was thinking till i heard more about the cctv, now i am not so sure.

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:56 am**

Greavesie wrote:2 weeks, sake! Nanny and Cigg are spot on. its a cut lip not a fractured skull. This bloke should take his money grabbing greedy @rse somewhere else and leave our Stevie alone. t0sser

hmm don't like the bit about Stevie holding an upside down bottle, or was he just indicating he needed a refill. :wwww

I agree that this is a nonsense case though, I can't believe people have so little honour and self respect that they can't take this kind of thing on the chin, no pun intended, without going to the pigs. I mean it is fairly clear that this fella who got a smack must have been winding Stevie up, pr1cks like that get a much deserved smack up and down the country every weekend, as long as it's no more than that what's the problem.

It's like Saturday night when I had to turn into a bodyguard to prevent my mate getting his :censored:

kicked on a few occasions, nothing serious, he was just in a very good mood and hitting on every girl in the nightclub, even those who obviously had boyfriends with them, not generally a good idea in viking territory! Having said that if he did get a smack it would probably have been deserved.

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:56 am**

lakes10 wrote:CCTV will be used to show him being involved, it is said that it shows him trying to punch someone but the punch no hitting anyone. Another cctv shows him with a upside down bottle in his hands falling over by the DJ stand.

Affray in English Law

A person is guilty of affray if he uses or threatens unlawful violence towards another and the person's conduct is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety.
Where two or more persons use or threaten the unlawful violence, it is the conduct of them taken together that must be considered for the purpose of subsection .

Ramifications

Three years imprisonment and/or a fine on indictment; six months imprisonment and/or a fine summarily

Love to know where 5live get there info from Lakes, :laugh:

How the h.ell would anyone know whats on that cctv unless there working on the case, It should never have got his far, should have been dealt with in the Maj, its just some jumped up prosecution trying to make a name for themselves, with a bit of luck it, it will get kicked out after a few days, then he can be left to concentrate on getting fit, its a fecking joke,

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