Bloke who Mike Tyson pummelled on airplane calls for £356,000 from boxing legend
Boxing legend Mike Tyson‘s lawyer has assured ‘there will likely be no shakedown’ as Melvin Townsend makes an attempt to sue his shopper for an altercation on a JetBlue flight final yr.
The Daily Mail report Townsend is looking for £356,000 ($450,000) in damages after footage emerged of him being pummelled by the previous world heavyweight champion on April 20, 2022. Townsend – who has had two stints in jail and been described as a ‘felony fraudster’ – was seen harassing Tyson from the row behind earlier than ultimately pushing the 57-year-old previous his restrict.
Celebrity lawyer Alex Spiro – who’s defending Tyson – acquired a letter from Townsend’s consultant, Jake Jondle, detailing their phrases. It learn: “If we are unable to reach an agreement, we will continue to prepare Mr. Townsend’s case for the filing of a lawsuit.”
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However, Tyson’s workforce have issued a swift response asserting their confidence over the matter, which can recommend the matter will certainly go to court docket. It’s alleged Townsend – who was 36 on the time of the incident – threw a water bottle at Tyson simply previous to the veteran fighter unloading a flurry of punches.
“I have received a shakedown letter related to some instigator’s harassment of Mike a year ago and the aftermath,” stated Spiro in response to Jondle’s communication. “There will be no shakedown payment.”
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Jondle’s letter asserted his shopper and Tyson initially engaged in pleasant chatter, speaking in regards to the retired star’s involvement within the ‘marijuana trade and psychedelic mushrooms’. Townsend has denied ever throwing a water bottle at ‘Iron Mike’.
The accuser additionally lists a lot of medical complaints he is suffered because of the incident, which embody ‘ache in his head and neck, a lack of consciousness, concussion, a contusion on the pinnacle, nausea, complications, melancholy, reminiscence points, sleep points, temper disturbances, vertigo, and compromised imaginative and prescient’.
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“There were several remedies available to Mr. Tyson, but he chose violence,” Jondle’s letter continued. Tyson has beforehand commented he ‘was flawed’ for his response – which ‘ought to by no means have occurred’ – however added he was “irritated, tired, high, and p****d off.”
The former undisputed world heavyweight champion was beforehand imprisoned in 1992 after being convicted for the rape of 18-year-old Desiree Washington. He was sentenced to 6 years however was paroled after serving fewer than three, happening to regain each the WBC and WBA heavyweight titles.