Blue singer Lee Ryan has won his bid to withdraw a guilty plea for drunkenly assaulting a police officer. In his appeal, he claimed that he received bad advice from his solicitor, and did not bite the officer.
has won his bid to withdraw a guilty plea for drunkenly assaulting a police officer.biting a police officerRyan 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, while pleading guilty to assaulting a police officer by biting him., claiming he had received bad advice from his solicitor Mike Rainford, and that he did not bite the officer.
In a court appearance on Tuesday, Keima Payton, representing Ryan, told a magistrate that her client suffered fromspectrum disorder and had ‘slow processing skills’ leading to ‘impairments in understanding what is said to him’, according to a psychological report. She said that text messages sent by Ryan on the day of the hearing showed that he was made to feel like he ‘had to’ plead guilty by Mr Rainford, ‘even though he [PC Bryett, who he pled guilty to assaulting] grabbed my neck’.A doctor’s report on the musician concluded Ryan has a number of impairments with communications, with Payton telling the court he ‘has difficulties understanding what is said to him and making himself understood, particularly in stressful situations.
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