Defendant in Hot Water After Dousing UK Judge
An unidentified 19-year-old man in Londonderry Magistrates Court had already been remanded in custody by District Judge Liam McNally.
But he presumably didn’t help his defense in a burglary and traffic offense case by grabbing a fire extinguisher and dousing the judge. “Water from the fire extinguisher hit the district judge, his desk and papers,” reports the BBC.
As discussed in an earlier ABAJournal.com post, this wasn’t the only water-related incident in a British courtroom this year: Fiona Shackleton, the high-profile attorney representing former Beatle Paul McCartney in his divorce, unexpectedly wound up with a sleek new hairstyle after being doused with a glass of water in March by McCartney’s now-former wife, Heather Mills.
The BBC doesn’t say whether the dousing created a bad hair day for McNally.
