Footballer sued for assault on Elvis impersonator

Footballer Anthony Stokes has avoided jail for headbutting an Elvis impersonator in a nightclub.

The Blackburn Rovers striker paid his victim 30,000 euro for breaking his nose and two of his teeth but is facing a second potentially expensive payout as he is being sued.

Former car park attendant Anthony Bradley, 53, was attacked by Stokes in the VIP section of what was then Buck Whaleys nightclub on Leeson Street in Dublin on June 8 2013.

He is now taking a case for damages over the attack to Ireland’s High Court.

Stokes, 28, did not speak during the hearing at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The father of two, who is awaiting the birth of a third child, apologised through a lawyer during the hour-long hearing.

Anthony Stokes.