Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - News - Liverpool News - Reformed Liverpool gangster Stephen French, aka 'The Devil', cleared by court over machete charge: "Stephen French, 50, known by the city’s underworld in his darker days as ‘The Devil’, sat though a four day trial at Liverpool crown court.
But before the case even went to the jury, Judge Bryn Holloway made the decision for them, ruling Mr French was not guilty of the charge he faced.
It marked the end of a 15-month ordeal for the former British, European and World kickboxing champion, who built a fearsome reputation by violently robbing drug-dealers when he was younger and so gaining him the Satanic nickname.
He was arrested in January 2009 on the Wirral side of the Birkenhead tunnel after police pulled over the car he was driving because it had no insurance.
When Mr French went to phone his solicitor claiming he was being harassed, a scuffle broke out between himself and PC Marcus Coast.
Coast claimed he had been assaulted, with Mr French peeling his fingers back, injuring his hand and causing him pain.
But on the witness stand he reluctantly admitted that the very next day he was able to take up his usual spot in the New Brighton Rugby Club first XV and played a “powerful” game of rugby."
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