The jury was told Bramble, 30, denies being the man who grabbed the bottom of a police worker in the Cross Keys nightclub in Yarm, near Middlesbrough, last September. The prosecution told the court that Bramble will say that sexual activity with a second woman in the back of a taxi on the same night was consensual. Giving evidence from behind a screen, the first woman said she did not see who grabbed her in the dimly lit club, but a man she later identified as Bramble was standing behind her "smirking". She told the jury she said, "Don't you grope me like that", before pointing him out to an off-duty police officer friend who told her the man played for Sunderland Football Club. The woman said she replied: "I don't care what he does, he's not grabbing me like that." The court heard how the woman reported the incident to police after seeing reports of Bramble's arrest for allegedly assaulting another woman later the same night. According to the prosecution, the second woman, who knew Bramble, kissed him in an alley outside the club at around 1.30am but turned down an invitation from him to go to another club. The jury heard how she got in a taxi with Bramble on the understanding that it would take her home before he continued elsewhere. The woman claims Bramble touched her, forced her to touch him, and tried to kiss her in the back of the taxi against her will. The prosecution said the taxi driver drove the pair to the police station because the woman was "very sad and scared". Bramble denies all the charges. The trial is expected to last five days.
This highlighted bit will be laughed out of any court in the land, the girl says he arse was touched but did not see who done it. Not guilty on this one. In the back of the taxi however......
If the part about the taxi driver going straight to the station is true...then that witness against Bramble could see him in a lot of trouble.
With any luck it will no longer be our problem, don't want Maclean getting caught again visiting prison's so best get rid.
That taxi driver bit, as mentioned, is the damning evidence. If that driver stands up in court he's ****ed. For me, he's had all his lives, and I don't want him at my club any longer, regardless. I defended the **** out of him on previous occasions, but there's too many of the same thing. At the very least he is naive and stupid, and he could damage the reputation of a club whilst we are trying to build.
Have to agree 83, if that is the strength of the prosecutions case then Titus will walk, whether he walks back to the SOL is quite another matter.
I don't want him back mate, his reputation will start to effect the clubs name, get shot of him. I don't think he's guilty IF that's all there is.
