Rapper
Dappy sparked a "mob attack" at a petrol station when he spat at two
young women who refused to get into a car with him, his trial has heard.
Prosecutor
Brian Stork said the 25-year-old, whose real name is Costadinos Contostavlos,
pulled up in a car at a Shell garage in Guildford, Surrey, at about 3.30am on
February 28 last year.
Mr Stork
said Dappy and his friend Kalonji Stewart got out of the car along with a third
man.
While
Stewart went inside the shop Dappy began talking to Grace Cochran and Serena
Burton, who were in a group sitting on the kerb outside.
Mr Stork
alleged that Dappy tried to persuade the pair to come with them in their car.
The
prosecution says the fight "kicked off" due to Dappy's behaviour
When they
refused he called the women "sluts", said one was ugly and then spat
at them, but missed, the prosecutor said.
A man who
just met the women, David Jenkins, stood up to defend them, and Dappy is said
to have spat at him and it made contact before swinging a punch at him.
Tests on
a saliva stain on Mr Jenkins' t-shirt showed a DNA link to Dappy, Mr Stork
said.
Mr Stork
told Guildford Crown Court: "It all kicked off."
He said
Dappy was then joined by two other men, Kieran Vassell and Alfred Miller, who
had arrived in a second Mercedes car with other unidentified men.
Mr Stork
showed the jury CCTV footage, lasting just moments, from the garage.
It showed
the men attacking Mr Jenkins and his two other friends, resulting in Mr
Jenkins' teeth being damaged and a fractured nose to another man. They then all
got into cars and drove off.
Miller
and Vassell are alleged to have used their feet and fists in the attack, and
Dappy is alleged to have got involved when he was released from a head lock.
Stewart
also got involved, but less so, the prosecution claims.
Dappy
denies two counts of common assault on the two women, one of assault by
beating, of Mr Jenkins, and one of affray.
Vassell,
25, of Hammersmith, west London, and Stewart, 32, of Harborne, Birmingham, are
each charged with affray.
Miller,
28, of Brentford, west London, has pleaded guilty to affray and his case was
adjourned for sentence at the end of the trial.
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