Judge Blames The Victim In Canada ‘Gay’ Bashing

 

 

Alex Myros.

Rarely, do you hear a judge take such a strip off an alleged victim of crime.   "I found everything he said to be calculated and I disbelieved most of what he said," the judge said of Brandon Wright, the so-called victim at the centre of a controversial London assault case.

The case boiled down to this: One 24-year-old, a semi-pro football player deep in debt, punched another in a moving pickup truck -- angry he'd been duped by the other man into believing he could make big money as a model in porn movies. There'd even been a bizarre and sexually intrusive audition with the punched-out man beforehand.

For 19 months after his arrest, the accused, Alex Myros, a former London Silverbacks player, had lived with the label "gay basher" for punching 00Wright in 2009.

But Wednesday, Superior Court Justice John Desotti cleared Myros of hate crime and gave him a conditional discharge for the assault causing bodily harm on the "con" man who just happened to be gay.

Wright -- a self-proclaimed modelling agent -- had a convenient memory lapse, "trying to hide his culpability," the judge said.

"I do not consider this to be a hate crime offence. This is not an attack on an individual because of his sexuality."

Wright's sexual orientation was "irrelevant to the attack," Desotti said, the idea it was a hate crime "completely a fiction."

"(Myros) was preyed upon," Desotti said, and "in a vulnerable position to be defrauded, conned and used by the complainant."

The judge candidly said he's usually "most sympathetic to complainants."

But "I am most unsympathetic to the complainant in these circumstances," he said of Wright, who was not in the court.