Under fredagen gjorde Gerrard tillsammans med de överiga sex åtalade sitt andra besök i rätten och glädjande nog för Liverpools lagkapten så valde åklagaren Nick Evans att lägga ner åtalet som gällde personligt övervåld ( assault ) och att de sju endast skall åtalas för slagsmål ( affray ). I åtminstone England och Wales skiljer man på common assault och battery , där det senare innebär misshandel.
För den som är extra intresserad:
In English Law, Affray forms part of the Public Order Act 1986 under section 3.
The Public Order Act 1986 s.3 states:
- A person is guilty of affray if a person uses or threatens unlawful violence towards another and the person's conduct is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety.
- Where two or more persons use or threaten the unlawful violence, it is the conduct of them taken together that must be considered for the purpose of subsection (1)
- For the purposes of this section a threat can not be made by the use of words alone.
- No person of reasonable firmness need actually be, or be likely to be, present at the scene.
- Affray may be committed in private as well as in public places.