He may want to bless his soul and wonder ‘what’s wrong with me’, because an itching feeling like a man in a fuzzy tree has left Anthony Stokes all shook up after being ordered to pay out €232,000 for headbutting an Elvis impersonator in Dublin.
The attack on 53-year-old Elvis impersonator Anthony Bradley in the VIP area of Buck Whale took place on June 6, 2013 and had already cost the Blackburn striker €30,000 for breaking his victim’s nose and two of his teeth.
However, it must have been always on his mind that Bradley wouldn’t have settled for that amount and that proved to be the case as Bradley sued the former Celtic man in the High Court in Dublin, with the Ireland international facing a second payout.
Even on a footballer’s wages, the €232,000 fine might leave Stokes running to confession and crying in the chapel over the attack that he received a two-year suspended sentence for earlier this month. The big award is broken down into €150,000 in general damages, €50,000 in aggravated damages and €32,000 in medical expenses and the Dublin court’s decision is enforceable in Britain.
Victim Bradley had been in the club for two hours when the assault happened, with Stokes butting the Elvis impersonator across the bridge of his nose. His sentencing heard that the former Celtic man and four times Scottish league winner told a club employee after he was escorted outside that: “If someone puts it up to me, I’m going to nut him.”
Rather than shake a hand and apologise, it seems that Anthony Stokes and his victim, Anthony Bradley, have gone separate ways with Bradley saying that not once has the footballer personally said sorry for the attack.
