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| Galloway is knocked out |
| 2008-04-22 |
| FIREBRAND MP George Galloway was knocked out cold today when he was hit on the head by a RUBBER ball while he was ranting. The ex Celebrity Big Brother contestant - on the campaign trail for the London Assembly elections - was roaring through a loudspeaker on the top of an open-top bus when he was struck. Eyewitnesses said the 53 year old ducked to avoid the ball and banged his head heavily on the side of the bus. He was treated for more than 20 minutes in an ambulance after keeling over on the top deck. The missile which silenced him - temporarily - was described by aides from the Respect party as “a rubber stress ball, about the size of a tennis ball.” Police raced to the scene and arrested a man who works in an office building which overlooks Galloway’s route, said to be used by a market research firm. It’s thought the ball was fired from a third storey window on Procter Street, in Holborn, central London. Witnesses say dazed Galloway, who represents the Respect Party in Bethnal Green and Bow, had to be treated at the scene by paramedics. The drama was witnessed by Richard Barden, 27, from Sidcup, Kent, who works on a lower level in the same building. He said: “I heard Galloway’s bus from my desk and had a look out my window. “He was on the top deck acting like lord of the manor, wearing sunglasses and talking through a loud speaker. “I think there were about 20 other party members with him on the bus. “Suddenly he fell over and the bus pulled up around the corner and an ambulance was called. “Police arrived pretty quickly too and they took someone from one of the offices above mine." |
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