A question of public interest
A young man emerges from a nightclub, the worse for drink. He espies a photographer seeking to immortalise the moment on film. He reacts like many young men have done before him and will do after him. He lunges forward, smashes the camera into the photographer's face, splitting his lip and shouts a string of obscenities at him. Naturally, the Police are informed and refer the matter to the Crown Prosecution Service. This is precisely the sort of drunken yobbishness that the Government are seeking to clamp down on. Many young men in that same situation would face charges
