BREAKING: Actor Stephen Tompkinson has been found not guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm by punching a drunk man who was making noise outside his house.
after finding him and a friend drinking at the bottom of his driveway in the early hours of May 30 2021.
On Thursday, a jury found him not guilty of causing grievous bodily harm after deliberating for just under two hours.Karl Poole had claimed he was punched to the ground The trial was told Mr Poole and his friend Andrew Hall had been drinking since midnight that bank holiday Sunday and had gone to the beach before passing Tompkinson’s home in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, on the walk back.
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