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🗓️ 30 May 2024
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A friend of mine, father of two @matthewjsyron was glassed and blinded on a night out in Leeds unprovoked on Boxing Day last year.
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0:00.0 | So Matt, let's begin by telling me what happened on the 27th of December. |
0:03.7 | Obviously in England, I'm on holidays. I came over for two weeks. It's a boxing day. |
0:09.8 | I went to go watch the rugby, we child of friends, just as I normally would if I was here, |
0:17.7 | went out into town, went into a nightclub, left a nightclub was, it were about 11 o'clock. I were like, right, it's time to go home. |
0:27.0 | Instead of going right, I went left, I walked down the street and I seen a new bar that had never been in. |
0:33.0 | So I was like, you know what, I'll see who's about, see who's in there, it's Christmas. |
0:37.0 | I don't want to go sit in my hotel room alone. |
0:40.0 | I'll go spend a couple of hours out. |
0:42.0 | I walk into a couple of hours out. |
0:43.7 | I walk into a bar, the bar's full. |
0:46.9 | I end up walking in. |
0:48.5 | I actually see friends that I used to play against |
0:51.7 | 12 years ago. |
0:53.0 | As you can imagine, it's Christmas everyone's having a good time. |
0:57.0 | And yeah, BAs are flowing, bands flowing, |
1:00.0 | everything's going great. |
1:02.0 | I'm having a good time. And then I break away from the group, I go to the |
1:06.4 | toilet. Didn't know where I were going, so I'm like to the bounces. Look, can you show them where |
1:10.6 | the toilet is? I go down to the toilet. On my way back, I go to the bar, stood at the bar with one of the boys. |
1:18.0 | I get this little nudge. Obviously, this point you can imagine the basketball |
1:25.2 | everyone's about you get nudged all time it don't really matter I didn't think much of |
1:29.4 | it turned a little bit next, pint glass straight through my face. |
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