Calum Davenport stabbed in his own home

[johnly]

Very strange indeed.

The life of some of these footballers ain't half weird

[BFG]

In the name of pointless, uninformed speculation I'd like to suggest it was probably his sister, possibly as an attempt to give some weight to a self defence plea from her boyfriend.

[johnly]

In the name of pointless, uninformed speculation I'd like to suggest it was probably his sister, possibly as an attempt to give some weight to a self defence plea from her boyfriend.

Everyone likes a bit of pointless uninformed speculation. Although to be fair, it probably is her.

[Scratch]

Well, it's either her, or his mum, cos they were the only one's present i think...so i'm guessing it was the sister...he probably shoved her aside or something would be my guess.

[The Erectile Banana]

Sounds like a lovely family.

Can't help but feel sorry for the guy. He gets stabbed in the legs and charged with assault.

[Marky]

The whole thing is ****ed up to say the least.

[Shaggy]

WTF

[Leyton388]

What type of sister is she? I mean her feller almost kills him and now she is pressing charges! Scum bag bitch.

[Chrono]

I knew there was more to this!

"A Premiership footballer attacked his pregnant sister after turning up drunk at her Bedfordshire home in the middle of the night, a court has heard."

"In the porch, Mr Davenport is said to have pushed his sister in the face so she fell back onto the stairs. He started to head butt her and in the struggle bit her cheek. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/b...s/10439100.stm

Doesn't deserve to get his legs stabbed to pieces but he sounds like a ****ing scumbag to be biting and headbutting his pregnant sister while drunk with his dad

[Rafa Justice]

If he did that, he deserved everything he got and more. ****ing lowlife.

[Kenneth]

Mad.

[Mike]

What a disgrace, and there he is trying to get a sob story

[Lee]

The entire thing is a bit bizarre really

[paulg]

So him and his DAD abused their own sibling / daughter? Nice family.

[Mike]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds_bucks_and_herts/10450837.stm

A footballer who attacked his pregnant sister was trying to protect his father, a court has heard.

Former West Ham player Calum Davenport is accused of attacking his sister Cara after she fell pregnant again by a different man, Luton Crown Court heard.

Mr Davenport called the mother-of-one a "form of cancer" in a row over how she was going to support the child, the court was told.

Mr Davenport denies causing actual bodily harm to Miss Davenport.

The court was told Mr Davenport, of Greenfields, Bedford, headbutted his 28-year-old sister five or six times before biting her cheek during the attack at her home in Collie Road, Bedford, in the early hours of 22 August last year.

Heads collided
Mr Davenport said he was acting in self-defence and had stepped in after his sister, who was seven weeks pregnant, started punching his father Curtis.

He told police he had drunk eight pints of lager over six hours following a golf competition before going with his father to his sister's home.

They drank tea before an argument began over how she was going to pay for her second child.

The court heard Mr Davenport told officers: "My dad put the question to her, 'Are you sure this is what you want because this is it?'

"As he said that to her she went for my dad and started hitting him around the face. That's why I got in between and grabbed her wrists.

"We fell over and smashed heads. She was going mental at this point and I put my head to her head and we collided heads on two or three occasions.

"I did see my sister had bruises to her face which I apologise for."

Paid rent
Pc Vito Napoli told the court Miss Davenport had claimed in a statement following the incident that her brother had racially abused her, something she later denied in court.

She said that when Mr Davenport and his father arrived at her house demanding a beer, a row erupted over how she was going to pay for her second child.

The court heard the former England under-21 footballer regularly paid for her four-year-old son Calum Junior's clothes, holidays and also helped her with rent.

Miss Davenport said she went to push her father away from the house, but her brother intervened, bundling her back into the house against the stairs.

After repeatedly head-butting her, he grabbed her by the hair and battered her head against a wall as her son shouted "get off my mummy, get off my mummy", the court heard.

The case continues.