DISGRACED Kasabian singer Tom Meighan has claimed a violent attack on his girlfriend which saw him convicted of assault was a 'fight' and moaned 'I took the brunt of it'.
The 39-year-old was kicked out of the Leicester-based band after he admitted the brutal booze-fuelled assault on Vikki Ager earlier this year.
CCTV showed him hitting ex-fiancee Ms Ager and then dragging her by the ankles into the back garden of their home. Meighan also threw his partner of four years across a room and into a hamster cage before threatening her with a wooden pallet during the "sustained attack".
Ms Ager was left with swelling to her eye, a head injury, bruises to her knees, elbow and ankle as well as reddening around the neck.
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