Quote Rugbyfann="Rugbyfann"Pal, a shove, a punch, a slap whatever, you don't do that unless you're trying to cause trouble. He got what he asked for, a reaction and that reaction would have been the same from 90% of people. Maybe Slater could have been more courteous but he wasn't being aggressive. His wife went a bit over the top though, don't think she saw that video first, before tweeting, was hardly gonna kill him with the slap.'"
The point is it wasn't self defence. He put his hands on the bloke and turned, the bloke shoved him back on the side of the head, and gets a punch stright in his face for his troubles. The bloke wasn't even looking at him.
Had that been two blokes as normal and the police pulled that off CCTV, the guy doing what Slater did would have been classed as the agressor, and the one classed as assault.
How you get punching someone in the face as non aggressive, I have no idea.