a bit more background/comment on this case.
The bloke who hit Tony just happened to be passing and saw another cyclist nearly get hit by a car door – his reaction was to punch the driver – he was never in any personal danger.
Anyone who knew Tony Magdi would say that the chances of him getting agressive if a cyclist started shouting at him were nil – he’d probably just offer them some free fruit as a gesture of goodwill and an apology. He really was the nicest shopkeeper I’ve ever come across – it was almost embarassing the amount of free stuff he’d hand over when you were buying your fruit and veg. There was never anythign to this than an agressive person trying to ‘teach someone a lesson’ by hitting them.
There was another thread on here that was pulled fairly early on in whcih a poster on here said they knew the bloke who killed Tony and that he had a history of violence including assaults against women.
In the end a man is dead, a community miss him and have raised several thousand pounds for a memorial tree to be planted in the local park and money donated to a charity (http://tonymagdiupdate.wordpress.com/).
and some lowlife shit is going to spend just a few months in jail for killing him.
regardless of a wider debate on when it’s ok to punch someone else, in Tonys case it’s all academic.