KPMG Accountant Beats Up Freshfields Lawyer
A KPMG accountant has pleaded guilty to brawling with a Freshfields lawyer in the Punch Tavern pub for talking too loudly. Graham Carr, 39, who had just been made redundant by KPMG, admitted causing actual bodily harm to Freshfields lawyer Simon McPhee. The City accountant was convicted after beating the lawyer’s face to a pulp in a brawl after drinking lager, champagne and tequila at a leaving party in the Fleet Street pub. Carr was spared jail but faces being …
A KPMG accountant has pleaded guilty to brawling with a Freshfields lawyer in the Punch Tavern pub for talking too loudly.
Graham Carr, 39, who had just been made redundant by KPMG, admitted causing actual bodily harm to Freshfields lawyer Simon McPhee. The City accountant was convicted after beating the lawyer’s face to a pulp in a brawl after drinking lager, champagne and tequila at a leaving party in the Fleet Street pub. Carr was spared jail but faces being struck off the chartered accountants’ register.
He was sentenced to a 12-month community order and 110 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay £500 costs, reduced after the court was told that he had just been made redundant. Source .
April 23, 2009
he let a f*king 40 year old accountant kick his ass….
must have been a real loser
April 23, 2009
Just because whoever left that first comment is an utter moron I feel compelled to point out that an ellipsis should only have three full stops
April 23, 2009
Re first comment: I’m nearing 40. But unless you’re fitter and bigger, I’m betting I could give you a kicking. Would that make you a loser?
April 23, 2009
that’s an embarrassment to the profession. the legal profession that is!
April 23, 2009
Re no1. – I agree. But am not surprised.
Re no2. – would you like a medal for knowing what an ellipsis is? Get a life.
Re no3. – I think it’s more the fact that he is an accountant rather than the fact that he is 40, although with both taken together I see where he’s coming from.
April 23, 2009
1 is right on the money, what a pussy.
April 23, 2009
I’ve found the explanation for the ass whipping – the guy was just a “lawyer” and not a solicitor
April 23, 2009
I think you are all losers. Everybody knows that the feet do not make an effective weapon in a conflict scenario and that you would be much more effective using a sharp wit and comfortable fast trainers……..
By the way number 2 – number 1 has not used an eillpsis (unlike me in the above sentence). I suggest you examine who is the moron.
April 23, 2009
Yet again accountants get one over the lawyers. I can feel a reality TV show coming on here, cage fighting for Professionals first up should be the pedant at 2.
April 23, 2009
Anything that shuts up a loudmouth lawyer and gets an accountant off the streets is a good outcome
April 23, 2009
This is all very upsetting and distressing. Can’t people take life more seriously. With the downturn in the economy, we are seeing people’s minds turned to slush. That said, I am sure the lawyer was talking loudly and, no doubt, in an arrogant manner, so I have some sympahthy for our man formerly at KPMG. This is exciting stuff. Really.
April 23, 2009
It was a pub for goodness sakes – I expect everyone was talking “loudly”. Still no excuse to lay into a fella.
April 23, 2009
I was with Freshfields for 8+ years. Back in the day the recruits were nearly all rowing or rugby types who would have given any pimply accountant a good hiding if they had been foolish enough to try something like that. Standards are obviously slipping …
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April 23, 2009
I have a mate who worked at KPMG. They are meat heads.
April 23, 2009
I guess the beating was caused by the pub’s name. The Punch Tavern pub.
April 23, 2009
lame joke @ 15
April 23, 2009
Sad thing is he is an Australian.
April 24, 2009
no surprise though, loud and a pussy
April 24, 2009
no mention of the fact that the lawyer had been at a speed dating event at the punch tavern earlier in the evening…
April 27, 2009
why didn’t anyone mentioned that the accountant sucker punched the freshfields associate? no. 14 – who are you kidding mate? i guess rugby and buggery at eaton made you real tough