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On Wednesday 10 November 1998 #geoffreyboycott was found guilty of assault for a 2nd time when a French judge decided he had brutally attacked Margaret Moore in an Antibes hotel two years previously.
He was fined £5,300 and given a 3 month suspended jail sentence.
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He was fined £5,300 and given a 3 month suspended jail sentence.
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He immediately appealed against the conviction.
"In the view of the way the trial was conducted," he said, "I suppose it is not a total surprise."
"In the view of the way the trial was conducted," he said, "I suppose it is not a total surprise."
The proceedings in the court Grasse were described as chaotic and almost out of control. Many of the 13 defence witnesses flown by Boycott to the south of France - at a cost estimated to have topped £200,000 - appeared to have nothing directly relevant to say.
