I CAN’T WAIT FOR MY TRIAL!
A big smacker after sex assault hearing ILLEGAL’S RAPE BID
PAUL Gascoigne planted a kiss on his manager yesterday and said he “cannot wait” for his sex attack trial.
The ex-England footballer puckered up as he left court after pleading not guilty to sexual assault by touching.
The charge relates to an allegation that he kissed a woman passenger on a train without her consent.
Judge Simon Bourne-Arton adjourned the case until October
14 and granted the ex-Spurs and Newcastle player bail but warned him he must turn up for his trial.
Gascoigne, 51, replied: “I will do, your lord.
“I cannot wait. I have done nothing wrong.’’
Gazza was arrested while he was travelling on a train from York to Newcastle on August
20 last year. The alleged incident was said to have happened at Darlington, Co Durham.
The footballer’s barrister Michelle Heeley QC told Teesside Crown Court a number of character witnesses will give evidence “about his propensity to kiss people in a non-sexual manner”.
During yesterday’s hearing the judge had to ask the footballer to be quiet.
When he heard that the case could not be heard for nine months the footballer called AN ILLEGAL immigrant from Africa has been jailed for four years after admitting the attempted rape of a Brit in Magaluf.
Prosecutors were demanding a six-year prison sentence for Gaye Talla, 24, from Senegal, ahead of his trial in the Majorcan capital of Palma yesterday.
But he pleaded guilty as part of a deal agreed between his defence out: “Sir, your Honour.” The judge replied: “Be quiet.”
Gascoigne said: “I’m worried to bits. I’m scared.”
He later left court smiling, grabbed manager Shane Whitfield’s face and kissed him on the cheek.
And barrister Robert Mochrie posted a picture on Facebook of the football legend wearing his wig.
He captioned it: “Standing in court. Next minute I’m hugged and kissed by this legend.
“What an utterly bizarre start to the day.”
It is against the law to take photographs inside a court building under the Criminal Justice Act 1925. lawyer and state prosecutors in exchange for a shorter sentence.
He is expected to be expelled from Spain after he has completed twothirds of his sentence.
He has also agreed to pay his victim, a 29-year-old who was at a bar enjoying time off from her job as a yacht worker, £8,970 compensation.