‘No regrets’, says man who threw egg at John Prescott

The antheral who threw an ovum and became progressive successful a punch-up with John Prescott said connected Thursday helium had “no regrets” and his thoughts were with the precocious politician’s loved ones.

Craig Evans threw an ovum astatine Lord Prescott who had conscionable got disconnected his run bus, the Prescott Express, to talk astatine a Labour Party wide predetermination rally successful Wales successful May 2001.

Ex-boxer Lord Prescott instinctively turned and punched the farming protester and an unseemly brawl broke retired – each captured by TV cameras.

On Thursday Mr Evans, a father-of-two, who lives connected a distant workplace successful the snow-capped Clwyd hills extracurricular Denbigh successful North Wales, shook his caput erstwhile asked if helium had immoderate regrets and replied: “No regrets.”

But Mr Evans, 53, said helium inactive gets invited connected TV shows to speech astir the lawsuit but ever declines and has been ducking the contented for years.

“It was a agelong clip ago,” Mr Evans said.

“It is what it is. It’s what I’m known locally for. I’ve got thing other to accidental really, I duck it each the time. I’ve ducked it for years.

“A person phoned up conscionable to accidental helium had died. He had had Alzheimer’s, I believe. I would not privation that connected anyone.

“I’ve got thing to accidental truly different than, thoughts with his family.

“My gramps had Alzheimer’s, I wouldn’t privation it connected anyone. It’s a unspeakable thing, it robs the idiosyncratic of themselves.

“It’s bittersweet for his household and the radical astir him.”

Mr Evans, past aged 29, and a workplace idiosyncratic from Denbigh, was taken distant successful handcuffs by constabulary aft the fisticuffs, but neither antheral was charged with immoderate offence.

A fig of paper surveys carried retired aft the punch suggested the nationalist supported Lord Prescott’s actions, aboriginal earning him the nickname ‘Two Jabs’, and Labour went connected to triumph the wide predetermination the pursuing month.