Order of events -
- Drinking at pub with new acquaintances (foreigners)
- 10pm - one of them is cut off from buying more alcohol
- Came back to his seat and finished his beer.
- Security removed him for not following venue instructions
- Arguing between security and patron begin to escalate
- Realising how this could end I start talking to one of the guards asking him to explain to the patron what is going on instead of inciting violence. (Patron had been in the country 1 month and was 18)
- Security guard I was talking to gave me a double handed shove backwards
- This aggravated my chest (I have Teitze syndrome, inflammation of cartilage in the chest that can be debilitating if stressed) I am filing an assault charge against the security officer but that's a different matter.
- 10:38pm - I call the police to put an end to this
- While waiting an off-duty security guard started talking to me, explaining they had no issue with me
- Pain struck in my chest, knowing what had aggravated it I let an obscene insult slip toward the one who had caused it
- He showed no sign of insult and grinned at me
- Police arrived, took statements of the security officers and watched the CCTV, couldn't take mine because of intoxication.
I know we have no "reasonable excuse" clause in QLD legislation. So I'm trying to find out what is going to happen if I plead Not-Guilty. As it seems I have no legal grounds to stand on for defence. Also whether this is likely to cause a conviction as that would be extremely detrimental for me.
Any info/advice will be greatly appreciated. I'll keep researching in the mean-time.
Thankyou, Josh