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Zutons man given community service
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 1 November 2010
Zutons man Dave McCabe has been handed community service as a penalty for him breaking another man’s nose in a run in outside a Liverpool club last February.
McCabe headbutted Peter Appleby after one of his friend’s joked that the fur collar worn by the Zuton frontman’s girlfriend made it look like she had a beard. Appleby said his only crime was laughing at the joke remark, though McCabe claimed he acted in self-defence after the victim and his mates surrounded him. A jury rejected McCabe’s self-defence claims in September, and last week a judge ordered him to perform 150 hours community service, pay his victim £1500 in compensation, and cover £3500 in court costs.
Confirming there would be no appeal, McCabe’s lawyer says his client now regretted the whole incident, adding “it was an overreaction from this otherwise very decent man”.
