I mentioned previously about Guy Wallace, the English teenager who claimed he was racially attacked on O'Connell St on St Patrick's Day by a gang of Irish teenagers who tore his little finger off. While some media sources jumped on this straight away as an example of racist behaviour by Irish teenagers others suggested that Guy's verson may not have been exactly how it happened. For one thing Guy was so drunk that he wasn't really in a position to give a very accurate account himself and no-one else saw this attack, apart from an incident in a take-away which he was able to get away from.
It was reported in todays papers that his finger has now been found, badly decomposed and attached to railings. It now seems that Guy caught his finger while trying to climb over the railings and the initial doubts about his story were correct.
It's not exactly a happy ending for Guy but it does help to remove the tarnish that the story could have put on the Irish reputation if it hadn't been disproved. I wonder what those expert plastic surgeons in England who said it looked like his finger had been bitten off now say. Meanwhile his family are backing him up saying that he had genuinely believed that that was what happened. In his drunken state he had mixed up earlier incidents and combined them to create this story.
Guys initial version of the story was that he had been asked his nationality by a group of people with old faces and thick Irish accents. When he confirmed he was English they beat him and held his hand against the footpath while one of them stamped on his hand and tore off his little finger.
As Roy the Taxi Driver commented on my previous post on this it appeared from Guys description of his attackers, old faces with thick Irish accents, that he was attacked by Leprechauns. The video above is an artists impression of how it might have happened.
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