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This. Given that similar incidents happen in virtually every city in England every week of the year, the court system would be processing nothing but affray cases if all of them went to trial.

If they'd have charged him with ABH, I think we'd have seen a different verdict personally. But that's on the CPS.

Interesting to read that the CPS wanted to charge Ben Stokes with ABH, but only decided this on the morning of the trial beginning - so the Judge dismissed it.

And now he's back in the test squad too for Saturday.

If you watch the police headcam footage from when Stokes is in the back of the police car, he doesn't seem to be that drunk to me. He's not slurring his words, he's not raising his voice, he's not being abusive or trying to resist what is happening and he's not unsteady on his feet. He clearly...

This is exactly what I was thinking earlier. Had Stokes' and the other defendants' behaviour led to a brawl that involved more people and taken place in a busier street, and therefore presented a greater risk to the public at large, then there's a fair chance we'd have seen a different verdict.

Disagree.

Agreed. I was waiting all along for them to be called by either the defence or prosecution. Very, very odd.

Utter nonsense.