Kebab attack
THE LATEST CLASH of 'town' and 'gown' erupted in the early hours of last Thursday morning when one LMH student was punched to the ground and another was held at 'glass point'.
Matt Fairclough and Dan O'Donoghue, both at LMH, were stopping off for a spot of kebab at the 'Roving Gourmet' after a night at Park End when O'Donoghue was approached by an irate woman in her mid-twenties who shouted, "You calling me a slag?" O'Donoghue, denied he had made any such comment at which point a male associate of the young woman intervened and shoved him into an adjacent bike rack.
Not wishing to provoke further violence, the pair moved off across St Giles only to be chased by two men, one of whom punched O'Donoghue in the face, sending him to the ground, whilst the other threatened Fairclough by holding a broken glass bottle to his neck.
The aggressors, having slaked their lust for violence, left the two shaken LMH students to walk away from the scene. O'Donoghue received a black eye from the incident, Fairclough emerged unscathed. Afterwards he reflected philosophically: "They were clearly out for a fight and just wanted to cause trouble with students at the start of term."
The event was reported to the Police who treated the case with relative indifference.
14th Oct 1999