John Prescott punch victim Craig Evans pays tribute and says 'I don't regret throwing egg'

Craig Evans changeable to fame successful 2001 erstwhile helium threw an ovum astatine 'two Jags' ex-Deputy PM John Prescott, and was punched successful the look for his troubles

The antheral who had a scuffle with John Prescott successful the infamous 'Prescott punch' incidental has paid tribute to the precocious politician.

Craig Evans was the antheral who threw an ovum astatine the 86-year-old Labour antheral successful 2001 during a protestation implicit farming issues.

After tracking him down astatine his home, Craig Evans, 53, a dada of 2 told the Mirror: "A person called maine this greeting to accidental helium died, helium had Alzheimers I believe, you wouldn't privation that connected anyone, my thoughts are with his family. The feline has died.

He added: "Alzheimer's is simply a unspeakable thing... my grandad died of Alzheimers and you wouldn't privation that connected anyone. It robs the idiosyncratic and it robs the household of the person."

Over the years Craig has been asked to look connected TV shows to talk astir the incident, which deed headlines crossed the UK, but has ever turned down the opportunities.

Asked for his thoughts connected it present helium said: "It's excessively agelong ago, it is what it is it happened astatine the time.

"I'm good known [for it]".

Many of the residents successful the country cognize Craig arsenic the antheral who had a punch up with John Prescott.

Asked if helium regrets the incidental each these years connected helium said: "I don't regret it I inactive judge present what I did backmost then."

Former lawman premier minister Mr Prescott died aged 86 pursuing a conflict with Alzheimer's, his household announced aboriginal this morning.

His household said helium had "spent his beingness trying to amended the lives of others, warring for societal justness and protecting the environment". The erstwhile commercialized national activistic and ex-merchant seaman died "peacefully" and surrounded by relatives astatine his attraction home, they said.

Lord Prescott was a cardinal fig of Sir Tony Blair's New Labour project, seen by galore arsenic custodian of the party's accepted values successful the look of a modernising leadership. Sir Tony said helium is "devastated" to larn of his erstwhile colleague's passing.

Lord Prescott was ennobled successful 2010 and introduced to the precocious enclosure arsenic Baron Prescott of Kingston upon Hull having served for 4 decades arsenic an MP for the city.

In a connection released aft his death, his woman Pauline and sons Johnathan and David said that representing the radical of Hull had been "his top honour".