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| Bouncer cleared of murder |
A BOUNCER at Stringfellow’s Covent Garden dance club has been
cleared of murdering a reveller on a stag night out.
But an Old Bailey jury was unable to agree on a verdict to a lesser
charge of manslaughter faced by former heavyweight boxer Marcus
Marriott and he will be retried.
The court heard how drunken businessman George MacDonald, 34, a
father of two from Southam, Warwickshire, was ejected from the basement
club in Upper St Martin’s Lane after a claim that he groped
a dancer.
Marriott, 33, from Chingford, east London, one of 12 door supervisors
on duty, admitted that on the pavement in Long Acre he punched 21-
stone Mr MacDonald on the side of the head.
The blow sent Mr MacDonald, who had spent £500 at Stringfellow’s,
crashing to the ground.
He died from a skull fracture on October 8 last year. Marriott said
he was acting in self defence because he feared the victim might
be about to attack him. |
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