Prince Ernst August with wife, Princess Caroline Photo Courtesy of everseradio.com
In Monaco today, Prince Ernst August of Hannover, the husband of the daughter of the late actress, Grace Kelly, received a lesser fine than his earlier one in a trial resulting from his assault on a man in Kenya hotel.
August was originally fined 450,000 Euros but the verdict from the new trial granted him a fine of only 200,000 Euros. The defense was seeking complete acquittal arguing that hotel manager, Josef Brunlehner, had misrepresented his injuries. The court eventually found Ernst guilty of a lesser charge of actual bodily harm with the judge, Andreas Schlueter, stating that, "the court was not in a position to be able to decide between the two versions." This was not Ernst's first brush with the law. According to TimesOnline the prince "first made headlines in 1999 when he was fined for attacking a attacking a German photographer with an umbrella." The trial took place in Germany.
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