No knighthoods for..

[David Johnson]

Boycott has a conviction for assaulting a former girlfriend though. Much more deserving of a knighthood!

[Essex Lad]

It was in a French court though where he couldn't understand what was being said...

[Larryandrews]

I assume he understood punching her in the face? Or did he do that in French too?

[Essex Lad]

Larryandrews wrote:

> I assume he understood punching her in the face? Or did he do
> that in French too?
>
That's if he did. He has always denied it and this from an interview with him by Nigel Farndale:

"For Boycott there is only one virtue worth having and that is being straight ? it is far more important than being tactful. It?s the reason, I imagine, why so many of the newspaper reports about his court case last year took his side. He?s so eccentric and guileless, the logic goes, if he really had battered Margaret Moore he would admit it. He?s that perverse."

[Essex Lad]

Bit more:

"As it was, he seemed genuinely outraged at the suggestion. And, as he pointed out, indignantly, to anyone who would listen, there were other factors in his mitigation. He has no history of violence against women, indeed, if his monk-like batting style is anything to go by, he has preternatural self-control. Moore was ?800,000 in debt. And before she took Boycott to court she had approached Max Clifford to see if he could get ?2 million for her story. When Clifford declined to take her on as a client, she approached Boycott and offered to settle out of court for ?1 million."

[David Johnson]

"That's if he did. He has always denied it "

Oh well, fair enough.

That's a very unusual defence for someone who is a defendant in a criminal case.

[Essex Lad]

David Johnson wrote:

> "That's if he did. He has always denied it "
>
> Oh well, fair enough.
>
> That's a very unusual defence for someone who is a defendant in
> a criminal case.

Good to see that your sarcasm hasn't abated in 2014. Read the whole of my post...

[David Johnson]

"Read the whole of my post..."

I did

So you quote an author and journalist, Farndale. So what?

Personally I put a greater store on the analysis of the medical evidence including photographs and the court decision to convict.

"According to Boycott, Moore had grown angry when he refused to marry her, stating that "he was not the marrying kind" and had fallen when throwing his clothing from the window, hitting her head on the carpet. "
However, when he again appealed against his conviction, Moore's version of events that Boycott had attacked her by punching her in the face, causing bruising, was upheld, in the light of photographs of her injuries shown to the court and the testimony of a doctor that the injuries could not have been caused in the way described by Boycott."

I have nothing more to state in this thread.

[Essex Lad]

And ignore the fact that she went to Max Clifford or tried to extort money from Boycott to drop the case...

[Arginald Valleywater]

I stand corrected. I genuinely thought Boycs had been knighted.