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Trial by tabloid replacing careful consideration by a jury and judge?
No chance that the lady in question might be looking to sell a kiss and tell to the papers and is therefore gilding the lily?
Short answer is that we don't know. We have not seen or heard the evidence or had a chance to weigh the credibility of the witnesses.
He may well be a woman beating thug (in which case he deserves prison, heavy fines, community sentence, being displayed in the stocks on Salford Quay) but let's see what a jury thinks before condemning him based on who he used to play football for?