Our thanks to Stu for this. An excerpt:
After the hearing, police said a friend of Mr Gregory’s had fallen out with him over a social media post and she asked another man to speak to him about it.
He arranged to meet Mr Gregory at the shopping centre and took Dickson with him, and a fight led to Dickson becoming involved and placing Mr Gregory in a choke hold, officers said.
‘… she asked another man to speak to him about it.’ Oh, right.
Far more men than women are assaulted and murdered in the UK, and you have to wonder how many of these attacks are at the behest of women i.e. violence by proxy. A few weeks ago the BBC ran a short piece in which they interviewed former Mods and Rockers on the beachfront at Brighton, where they’d fought in the early 1960s. One woman, now a pensioner, said cheerily, ‘It was great to have men fight over you!’
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