A London high school student's celebration for the end of exams ended in his death when he got into an argument with a club promoter. Instead of letting karma hit the aforementioned high school student the man literally took things into his own hands after said student shouted "One day you'll work for me" by punching him—a punch that killed him.
According toThe Independent, 18-year-old Archie Lloyd, a student of Harrow School, was with his best bro Andy Hutchinson when he got into the fight that would end his short life. The boys were celebrating in Malia, a town in Crete, Greece reportsThe Independent.
It's not explained exactly how Lloyd and Hutchinson got into the altercation with club promoter Sebastian Trabucatti (also British), but Hutchinson did recall how things quickly got out of hand.
Hutchinson told authorities that indeed he and Lloyd had gone back and forth with Trabucatti insulting one another, but said Trabucatti was the one who initiated the physical violence when he allegedly pushed Hutchinson and Lloyd.
The Sunreported Hutchinson as saying, "The man pushed me. I lost my balance and swayed. I wasn't aware of Archie doing or saying anything." He added, "All this was over in 10 seconds."
Witnesses to the argument said Hutchinson and Lloyd were "attacked," as The Independentwrites, by Trabucatti who was with two women on mopeds at the time, as they were trying to walk away from the argument.
"They started to leave and I thought that was the end of it. Archie then shouted 'one day you'll work for me,'" said Hutchinson. In return Trabucatti punched Lloyd who fell over and hit his head on the ground, saysThe Independent, before dying in his sleep hours later.
Hutchinson recalls that afterwards one of the moped-riding-women said Lloyd "deserved" to get punched.
Trabucatti, however, told Greek police that Lloyd had in fact approached him "with fists raised," reportsThe Independent.
Coroner Grahame Short said Trabucatti's claims weren't true based on witness accounts. Those accounts included one of the women on the mopeds who said Lloyd and Hutchinson tried to walk away from the argument.
"Based on the evidence, I am sure that Mr Lloyd was struck in the face and I find it proven beyond all reasonable doubt that this was a deliberate and intentional act," said Short, reports The Independent. "I don't find there was any intention to cause death. But it was the inadvertent consequences that Mr Lloyd was knocked backwards and struck the back of his head, and death resulted."
Short concluded that this was an involuntary manslaughter saying the, "death [was] due to unlawful killing."
A trial for the case will reportedly be held next year.
