Footballer Kyle Dempsey has admitted to a court he is “embarrassed” and might have jeopardised his career after he “completely lost it” and attacked a social club doorman who was left bleeding and injured.
Former Carlisle United midfielder Dempsey, a recent Wembley winner with his current League 1 club Bolton Wanderers, admits carrying out a joint assault on Darryl Jarvis at Maryport Labour Club with his dad, ex-rugby league professional Michael Shane Dempsey.
Their violence, on 16th July last year, came just hours after Kyle Dempsey, 27, had played for Bolton at Carlisle’s Brunton Park in a summer friendly fixture, watched by his 50-year-old dad and family members. READ MORE: All Greater Manchester hospitals with strikes this week as doctors stage industrial action of 'unparalleled disruption' Kyle Dempsey, of Blackpool, and Michael Dempsey, of Whitecroft, Maryport, admit assaulting Mr Jarvis, causing actual bodily harm, having forced their way into the club they had previously been prevented from entering.
Michael Dempsey also admits damaging a door. But the prosecution dispute their claims that they merely went “overboard” and acted in excessive self-defence during an incident graphically captured on CCTV.
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