Two men have spoken of their ‘three years of hell’ after being found not guilty following a Crown Court trial. Football agent James Featherstone, 41, and Ben Cowgill, 41, were both acquitted of an offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Manchester Crown Court previously heard that an incident happened in March 2019 at the Stamford Arms pub in Bowdon, Altrincham. The complainant told jurors that Mr Cowgill began filming him after he used the toilet, before he admitted pushing him, causing him to fall to the floor.
He then claimed that Mr Featherstone ‘punched him to the back of the head’, before being pushed against the wall and grabbed by the throat by Mr Cowgill. The court was told that Mr Featherstone suffered a nasty injury to his head and abrasions to his throat during the incident.
