Man’s jaw broken at Valentine’s meal after being accused of ‘groping attacker’s girlfriend and sister’
Simon Gudgeon, who was having a meal with his wife to celebrate a belated Valentines Day, was punched twice in the face by Albert Saunders on the stairs of Little Italy in London's Soho and began 'spitting blood'
A MAN had his jaw broken after being wrongly accused of molesting two women during a Valentine’s meal with his wife.
Simon Gudgeon, 48, was punched twice by drunken Albert Saunders, 27, who accused him of touching up his girlfriend and sister. Mr Gudgeon was also arrested for indecent assault at the Little Italy restaurant in London’s Soho.
Saunders, of Chigwell, Essex, got eight months’ jail after admitting GBH at Southwark crown court.
The court heard Mr Gudgeon asked Saunders “what his problem was,” adding : “You have had too much to drink, silly boy.”
Saunders later approached Mr Gudgeon on the stairs of the restaurant and punched him twice in the face, the court was told.
Prosecutor Alex Kettle-Williams said: “He felt his teeth move and was spitting blood.”
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Defending barrister James Elvidge, said of his client: “He does not go out anymore, he does not drink, he is scared about what might happen, he stays in doors.”
The case against Mr Gudgeon was dropped after both women and CCTV confirmed he had not touched them.
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