Jury took less than half an hour to reach a unanimous ‘not guilty’ verdict
A McDonald’s doorman was cleared on Wednesday of inflicting grievous bodily harm on a customer who was ejected from the premises.
Although the footage had no sound, the two men can be seen talking briefly before Getty pushed him out the front door backwards. Saying he had no recollection of the evening, the customer accepted he’d been drinking but said: “At the end of the day, he should never have put his hands on me and pushed me out the door.”The Newtownabbey man said that prior to the push, the customer had been in the restaurant, had ordered food and after being aggressive he was asked to leave.
Getty said the customer stopped eating, licked his fingers then “squared up” to him. He said: “I took a step back, he stepped into my personal space and I noticed his arm raised so I anticipated a punch or something coming in.
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