Was he racially discriminated against?

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/3xjygfg

/// When asked if he felt he had been racially discriminated against, he replied: “Yeah, of course. ///

/// Fagan said: “I’m a black man and I have been tried by a white jury.///

/// He claimed that he was like “honey to a swarm of bees” when it came to female fans and that Glasgow was “hardly a haven for models”.///

I think this time his ego has taken a stinging.

[craft1948]

I didn't think he'd been tried by jury.............

[ummmm]

I've just read that. What an idiot...

Although I do think going to the police was bit OTT on the girls behalf.

[naomi24]

No he wasn't.

“Tell me how many people could have been convicted for squeezing a girl’s a**e. Nearly every guy could be up for that.”

They could? I don't think so. He's a creep.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

I first checked your gender and was surprised to find you were female, I would have expected your answer from a bloke, but not from one of the fairer sex.

You said "you thought that going to the police was over the top"

/// He also fondled one girl’s breasts while telling her “I’m having you tonight” and calling her a “dirty girl”.///

That seems a little OTT to me, and I think she was in her right to call in the police.

First it was a sexual assault, then threatening behaviour, finished off with a verbal insult.

[micmak]

She should have shown him what her right knee was for!!!!

[daffy654]

I am also female and would not go to the police over some bloke grabbing my bum, probably not even if he touched my boobs. I would have just slapped him and walked away.

[ummmm]

He put his arms over our shoulders and started leading us up the stairway. As we were climbing the stairs he took his hand away from my neck and put it on my bottom and started grabbing at it.

If a man put his arm round my shoulder and started leading me up a stairway I would have a slight inkling of what would have been on his mind. If I wasn't happy with it I wouldn't have let him lead me up a stairway or put his hand over my shoulder...

The girls have jumped on an opportunity. Wait for the damages claim...

[New Judge]

I think there might have been a little more to it than that, Noth.

It is always encouraging for our legal system when people who have been fed a few snippets of the details of a trial by the newspapers feel able to arrive at a verdict far more satisfactorily than a jury, or magistrates can, having heard all the facts.

It is disappointing that Mr Fagan felt he had been the victim of racial discrimination. In a country where the vast majority of the population is white and where juries are chosen at random, there is always the possibility that an all white jury will be formed. Because such a jury convicts a black man, it does not mean that they have acted with discrimination.

Finally, Mr Fagan feels he has been convicted unfairly – “...with no evidence – no CCTV or anything.” Not many people are convicted with no evidence at all against them and Mr Fagan obviously suffers from the common misapprehension that the only form of evidence is CCTV.

[donkeymike]

White with a good lawyer and he would be found innocent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRTmK7Mv1es

[ummmm]

I still think the girl/s have jumped on the opportunity though.

[waterboatman]

I agree with ummmm. I don't think those girls were that stupid. They knew what they were doing.

[ummmm]

I was on a night out and some dimwit walked up and grabbed my boobs. Pity he wasn't famous eh? I just told him to F off...

[andy-hughes]

Was he racially discriminated against? Of course not, but it is human nature to defend ourselves, even when we really know we are guitly, legally, morally, what ever.

This man sounds like an ignorant egotistical moron - hopefully a minimal number of people will be interersted in his pointless ramblings.