Peter Fury started a fight at an auction where he gouged an eye out of a man's head.
“It was like he was trying to pull his finger into my brains through my socket,” he said. “I was screaming, 'Please stop, you’re hurting me.'
“After that he tried to take my other eye – he tried to blind me, sir, not once he tried to blind me, twice.”
Mr Sykes told the court he had gone to British Car Auctions at Belle Vue to buy his 17-year-old son Buddy his first van when John Fury approached him with his ‘chest up’.
The two men had been pals but had a violent bust-up over a bottle of beer during trip to Cyprus in 1999.
When they met at auction Mr Sykes claimed Fury asked him: “What about me and you finishing that fight?”
The victim claimed that he said ‘I don’t want no trouble’ and Mr Fury replied: “I’m the best man here in the auction, I’m the best man in the country.”
Mr Sykes added: “He meant that he could beat any man at the auction, he’s the best man at fighting.”
The pair traded punches, lurching between cars, before Fury grabbed Mr Sykes by his shoulder-length hair and gripped him in a headlock.
“He was pushing his hand in my face,” said Mr Sykes. “It was his finger, it went in my eye, in the corner and he wouldn’t stop, he was like gouging and poking and twisting and poking, all of a sudden I heard this sound, a clicking like, a popping noise and when he took his hand away I realised blood was in his hand, a lot of blood.”
Also was a well known drug trafficker back in the 90s. Got 10 years for it in 1995, and a further 2 years for drug related money laundering in 2008.
In conclusion, not a stand-up guy.