Birmingham’s Gay Village. At around 5am on Sunday morning, a man standing outside his car saw the pair and told them ‘you should not be doing that’.
John-Paul responded ‘what, me?’, to which the man grabbed a bottle of wine from his car and threw it at him. ‘I was very lucky, he had a bad aim, it was a glancing blow which cut my eyebrow open and left me dazed,’ John-Paul told the BBC.
As he took his phone out to call the police, he says the assailant started walking towards him with a pole and took a swing.The man hit John-Paul, but he put his arm up to block it and said ‘what are you doing?’He says the man hit him once before getting in his car, outside a 24-hour shop on Holloway Circus, and driving away.