 The defendants were charged with affray and grievous bodily harm after an Asian student, Safraz Najeib, was assaulted in Leeds city centre.Poole held that an article in the "Sunday Mirror" created a "substantial risk" of prejudice to the trial; its editor, Colin Myler, resigned three days later.At a retrial later that year, Woodgate was convicted and sentenced to community service, but Bowyer was acquitted.