Man guilty of assaulting Sir
Alex
A man has pleaded guilty to assaulting Manchester United boss Sir
Alex Ferguson at a London railway station.
Kevin Reynolds, 43, admitted punching Sir Alex in the groin before
butting a police community support officer at Euston station on
Monday.
Reynolds was warned by City of Westminster magistrates that he
faces a jail sentence when he appears at Southwark Crown Court at a
later date.
Sir Alex, who was born in Glasgow, is not believed to have been
badly hurt.
'Fighting drunk'
He had been in London for a function.
Reynolds, of no fixed address, was charged with actual bodily harm,
assault and two public order offences.
Adeola Olowu, defending, said her client initially thought he had
come across a Sir Alex look-alike.
She said her client was joking around and that he struck Sir Alex
while shadow boxing.
Magistrate Daphne Wickham said: "I do not think Sir Alex Ferguson
saw this as a joke."
She said Reynolds was "a fighting drunk", adding that her powers of
sentence, which allow for six months' imprisonment, were
insufficient.
Reynolds was remanded in custody.
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