Blue star Lee Ryan appears in court as he withdraws guilty plea for ‘drunkenly assaulting police officer’
Blue member Lee Ryan made an appearance in court today where he successfully applied to withdraw his guilty plea for drunkenly assaulting a police officer as he was arrested for abusing a black flight attendant.
Police footage showed Ryan “snarling” and swearing after allegedly trying to bite a Pc Bryett as officers attempted to arrest him on his arrival at the airport. He was found guilty at Ealing Magistrates’ Court in January of racially aggravated common assault by beating and behaving in an abusive way towards the cabin crew member. He pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer by biting him.
Describing the moment he pleaded guilty at a second hearing in January, when a trial was due to start, he said: “I couldn’t believe the words coming out of my mouth. There was no conviction. It wasn’t true. I was being made to do it.” "One of the challenges that people with high-functioning autism can have is slow processing of information and responding inappropriately to what is said. Mr Ryan was advised. He received that advice as an instruction.
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