court.

court day was on. and this was quite a big thing for me as it wasn't a normal court day.

this time i was not able to be repersented as i was not granted leagal aid and i could not afford a solicitor.

so i repersented myself!

i had all the info,, all the police reports and statments from all witnesses includin my own.

it was quite scary as i had to revise all this paper work.(just like bein back at school)lol.

we entered the court room and on the opposition was a barister(you know? them pricks with the wigs).

a solicitor , two asistent silicitors and the managers from the housin office i was rentin the flat off.

then there was just me!

i had revised the paperwork and read all the statments from front to back.

i was quite nervous as it was all new to me, not court but just not havin a solicitor to lean back on..

as the judge walked in my heart dropped as i thought he would take one look at me and laugh and then i would be kicked out of my flat.

it started off with the charges againt me which sounded worst than it actully was, but this didn't bother me as i knew the routine. then it was time to bring in the wittnesses and the solicitor for jephson housing was asking them questions and the answers were all lies.....

they were just trying to get me out as they were making the flats where i lived into house's.

the first wittness was 'Gary's' wife and she came out with all kinds of shit, sayin it was me that started the fight and that she was there the whole time and watched me''attack'' her husband...

then i had to ask the queations and ross examine her,. and i remembered a line in her statment that stated her leading her children away fron where myself, Gary and Rich colided. and that she had heard me making the first punch,,lol. if three people are fightin? then without you being there then how can you hear who took the first punch???its impossible and the judge knew it as well, so her bollocks was chucked straight out the window..

the second wittness was gary, and he was just as stupid.

he came out with a load of crap sayin i had shouted abuse across the street at his seven year old daughter after getting off the bus, so he came out to investigate and saw me drunk and aparently when i saw him i went over and started the fight. but i had my own witness for that. a shop keeper who saw it all and one of the questions that was put to him was that , if he had know gary for ten years and me for six months, then why would he protect me?? and his answer was '''because its the truth'''

so that was gone aswell.

i had another wittness called stacey who was quite young at the time so jephsons solicitor tried to pick on her and seek the real truth, but as WE was tellin the truth he didn;t know wot to say.. he was calling her a lier and tryin to break her down and i think the point as when the judge stopped it as when stacy turned round and said-

''well you wern't fuckin there was ya!!!!''

and the whole court uproared as the prosicution was beat by a 14 year old..

then it was the grand finarly, wher each side says their version of events after they peice their story together,.

their story was simple, i had got off the bus in a bad mood and saw gary and 'kicked off' and that rich had no club and that he wasn't even there....

but when i read the statments with the addresses, i noticed that rich lived above the pub in the square called the couch and horses''. so my story was that when gary daughter saw me getting off the bus, she then went back to the pub to tell her dad and thats whenn rich went upstairs to his room an go the club an then they both came lookin for me.. an that was the jist of it..

i ended up winning the case and jephsons had to pay £14,000 court an solisitor costs and was warned that if they ever brought a case to tril again without lookin into detail then they would be chared for waistin court time..

i really dont think they bothered me again neither gary's family or jephsons.