Guilty verdict in Hong Kong case

An open-mic comedian has been found guilty of glassing a heckler.

Gary Jackson, who is also a data scientist, has been ordered to pay £1,000 compensation to his victim and now faces up to three years in jail over the incident.

He had denied the charge of wounding, saying the victim ‘ran into’ the glass at the Hong Kong Brew House in March, claiming he only intended to ‘swish’ beer on to Ravi Kanasamoorthe

But Kanasamoorthe said he was attacked after criticising the comic for a  joke he thought was racist.

According to the Hong Kong Free Press, Judge Jason Wan Siu-Ming said he was ‘sure that the defendant has not told the truth’.

Sentencing was adjourned until October 24.

Last year in Ohio, open mic comic Brian Irons punched a compere in the face after being reprimanded for defying a club’s no-swearing policy; while in a club in Washington state a open-mic comic attacked compere Dylan Avila after he didn’t get a slot on stage.

Published: 6 Oct 2016