Overview

• Verite admitted to common assault and criminal damage in Liverpool Magistrates’ Court and prosecutors accepted his conduct was reckless without intent to harm.
• The offences were aggravated by the victim’s pregnancy, their domestic setting and the presence of the couple’s baby daughter.
• He received a 20-week sentence suspended for 18 months and was ordered to pay £504 in court costs.
• Verite’s defense highlighted his PTSD from intervening in the Southport stabbings, 95 days of sobriety and enrolment in a caring father programme.
• Last summer’s Taylor Swift-themed dance workshop attack by Axel Rudakubana, where Verite was hailed for his intervention, is still under formal inquiry.