Liam Gallagher has hit out at the judge in a “noncey wig” who branded his son as “entitled” over a late-night brawl at a London Tesco Express.
The fight, involving 20-year-old Gene Appleton Gallagher and Sonny Starkey, 21, sparked when staff tried to stop their friend, Noah Ponte, leaving the shop in Heath Street, Hampstead, on May 17, 2019, with a £1.70 can of gin and tonic.
After judge Joanna Greenburg called Gallagher and Starkey “young men thinking they can get what they want by misbehaving" during a Wood Green Court trial on Friday, the legendary singer took to Twitter to share his views.
In a series of tweets, Gallagher wrote: “Judge Judy can kiss my a*** hole.
Liam Gallagher has spoken out a fight his son was involved in
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Gene Gallagher and his num Nicole Appleton
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“From one entitled p**** to another, as you were LG x."
He added: "Funny thing is 99 percent of judges are massive C**** LG. Asking folk to sit down, stand up, rise, f*** off with your noncey wig.
“If ya can't steal from Tescos, where can you steal from eh? This country is over.”
The court heard last Friday how Gene Appleton Gallagher’s friend Ponte was unable to pay for the gin and tonic because it was outside the hours Tesco was licensed to sell alcohol.
He had paid for nuts of the same value, which he left in the shop, in an attempt to get around the licensing restriction, he told the court.
Staff were said to have started “grabbing” Ponte before an altercation in which prosecutors said Starkey and Gallagher threw “kicks and punches” at one worker, who then managed to get Starkey in a headlock for “some minutes”, the court heard.
All three were charged with affray, while Gallagher faced an additional charge of racially aggravated assault by beating, while Starkey was charged with two counts of assault by beating.
She recorded not guilty pleas in relation to Gallagher and Starkey, and bound over all three defendants – meaning they have promised to “keep the peace and be of good behaviour” for 12 months or pay £500.
Ponte was found not guilty of theft at the end of the trial following 31 minutes of jury deliberation.
In closing, judge Greenburg said to Gallagher and Starkey: “Your behaviour on this occasion when you entered the Tesco store was, in my view, completely out of order.
"It’s hard enough when people running a late-night store encounter entitled young men thinking they can get what they want by misbehaving, and that’s what you did."
