On October 10, John-Paul Kesseler was struck with a bottle across the head whilst walking to a hotel with a male friend. The pair were suddenly approached by a man who was standing outside of his car who addressed Kesseler.
The unknown man aggressively said they shouldn’t be holding hands. “He said we shouldn’t be holding hands,” Kesseler told Birmingham Live, “and I said, ‘What’s the problem?’” The 38-year-old recalled seeing the man grab a bottle and follow him before he was attacked: “I didn’t notice him coming and the next thing I knew, I felt bashed round my head.
I felt I was bleeding, I could feel blood dripping down my clothes. I was a bit dazed.” Kesseler went ahead to call the police, according to Birmingham Live, and the attacker