Pienaar's assault case postponed

06/09/2012

Steven Pienaar is expected to return to the Randburg Magistrate's Court in South Africa today on an assault charge.

Pienaar has denied kicking and punching Thabang Mnisi, the son of Public Service and Administration Deputy Minister Ayanda Dlodlo at a nightclub in Sandton, Johannesburg, in June.

The case was postponed until October 12, as Pienaar was unable to travel to South Africa because of a muscle injury he sustained while playing for Everton against West Bromwich Albion in the United Kingdom on Saturday, his lawyer Cliff Alexander said.

�A medical certificate was handed to the court, which was accepted by the magistrate,� he said.

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Sean Byrne
994 Posted 06/09/2012 at 07:49:40
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It wasn't him. I seen him outside the Winslow on the night in question m'lud.

Denis Richardson
027 Posted 06/09/2012 at 13:19:45
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At least with the AcoN being this South Africa this Jan, there is little chance that the government will lock up their captain.

Person should be punished if guilty but the cynical side of me thinks Everton will be ok on this one...

Paul Doyle
053 Posted 06/09/2012 at 14:48:07
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No doubt being an Everton player, he will be found guilty by a judge in a Carlsberg top and sentenced to 2 years digging for diamonds.

Graham Foster
057 Posted 06/09/2012 at 15:06:37
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I hear that Duncan Ferguson is representing him

Mike Allison
065 Posted 06/09/2012 at 15:57:59
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Just get him Steven Gerrard's lawyer and he'll probably win compensation from the other bloke for the injuries sustained to his fists.

Si Cooper
091 Posted 06/09/2012 at 19:13:52
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It must be a pretty nasty injury!

Had hoped this would be sorted quick as possible (one way or another). If Pienaar is deliberately stalling it makes me less confident that he is expecting a good outcome.

As someone has already suggested, maybe the closer we are to the ACoN the more leniency he can expect if he is found guilty. ;)

Pete Anthony
100 Posted 06/09/2012 at 20:11:35
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Maybe he pulled off a great new move and ripped upwards his shirt to celebrate with 'God is Great' undergarment only to innocently plant an accidental uppercut to alleged victim's chin as he did so. Then unfortunately poked him in the eye while raising a finger to the big guy upstairs.

Some people have no luck at all, do they? Thy may even have been getting jiggy to the Sophie Ellis Bextor anthem, Murder on the Dance Floor.... Boom Boom.

Coat donned, I shall now depart.

Nick Entwistle
117 Posted 06/09/2012 at 22:34:35
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There's people who pay a lot of hard-earned to see midget fights, and the law gets involved. Shame.

Mike Hayes
119 Posted 06/09/2012 at 22:51:30
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Laughed a lot at your response Nick, classic

James Flynn
303 Posted 07/09/2012 at 21:42:58
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Where's the days when fisticuffs were just understood in a weekend bar/pub/nightclub. It happened. It happened all the time.

This guy Piennar roughed up, he's laying somewhere in a coma?

Brian Waring
438 Posted 08/09/2012 at 12:20:03
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The thing is though James, it wasn't just a couple of lads having - a - go at each other, there was supposedly a few off them, including Pienaar, who got stuck into the lad.

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