Extradited by Andrew Symeou Read Free Book Online Page B

O’Gorman, Christopher Paglionico, Jason Mordecai and Robert Hares headed to ‘the strip’, which is where the nightclubs and bars are located. They left Lee Burgess and Jonathan Hiles in the hotel bar, as they were talking to some girls.
    The four boys who had gone to the strip sat in the outdoor bar area of the Rescue nightclub, where they had a drink before Jonathan and Lee caught up with them. Once they were all together, they went into the dance area of the nightclub. Their statements gave a detailed description of the layout – the raised platform dance area was 5 or 6 feet high and next to the DJ. After buying a drink at the bar, they made their way onto the raised podium to dance. All of the boys admitted to being tipsy, apart from Lee who was noticeably drunk.
    They were dancing with a group of six British girls on the raised stage when a man who they didn’t know barged through them and began to urinate. One of the boys describes this male as having ‘hair which was cut short in a mullet style, spikey on the top. He was a big build, not fat, not all muscle.’ From detailed head-to-toe descriptions, not one of Jonathan’s friends had said that this male had a moustache and goatee like mine. I considered myself to be quite fat – their descriptions did not portray how I looked. Christopher Paglionico, who gave a very detailed description, admitted to seeing the male for a maximum of five seconds only, after several drinks and with flashing disco lights.
    It was mentioned that the urinating male was in the company of two other males, one of whom was described by Jason Mordecai as ‘a white male, early twenties … over six foot tall and of an average type build. He had shortish blond hair and he appeared to have a badly pock-marked complexion.’
    Christopher Paglionico, Lee Burgess, Robert Hares and Jason Mordecai jumped off the stage because they had been urinated on and wanted to clean up in the toilet.
    Mark O’Gorman and Jonathan Hiles remained on the raised platform. Mark O’Gorman stated:
    We headed towards the far right hand corner of the dance stage to get off. I was walking alongside maybe slightly behind Jonny [Jonathan] and I saw the male who had been urinating in the area of the corner of the stage. He was with the same two males and he appeared to be stumbling around as if he was drunk. Jonny had to walk past him and as he did Jonny said, ‘What are you doing?’ I heard this as I was right alongside Jonny. This question was not asked in any way an aggressive manner or confrontationally, Jonny was not that sort of person. The male then stood face to face with Jonny who was stood about two foot from the edge of the right hand side of the stage with his back to the edge of the stage. This face to face was literally for a second or two, the other male seemed to be frowning or scowling at Jonny and almost immediately he punched Jonny with his right hand in a clenched fist to the left side of his face. This happened right in front of me and I saw Jonny stumble backwards and one of his legs stepped over the edge causing him to fall backwards off the stage. I saw him land on his head on the floor I mentioned earlier some 5 feet below the stage. As he hit the floor he appeared to immediately become unconscious, his eyes closed and he was not moving. I pushed this male and was expecting to have a fight with him. As I was preparing myself for a fight I looked over and saw that Jonny obviously needed my help.
    The first thing that I thought when reading the statements was that I would never, ever commit such an offence. In no situationwould I ever decide to urinate in a nightclub and then punch someone for no reason! The second thing that struck me was that Mark O’Gorman was the only eyewitness to the alleged attack. This was a complete contradiction to what was written in the Greek statements, which claimed that all five of the victim’s friends were 100 per cent certain that I was the