Australian Singer Arrested For Racist Attack At Thai Restaurant

[sriracha john]

Darren Hayes

Darren Hayes Arrested Over Alleged Racist Attack

Former Savage Garden man is bailed

Former Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes has been arrested in London for an alleged racist attack on a waiter at a Thai restaurant last month.

Hayes was taken in for questioning by Police on Friday night for racially abusing staff at the Busaba Eathai on Wardour Street on July 22.

Hayes was later released on bail but has refused to comment on the situation.

A Scotland Yard spokesman confirmed: "We can confirm that a 35-year-old man was arrested by Westminster police on suspicion of racially abusing a member of staff.

"He was arrested after voluntarily attending a Central London police station by appointment. He has been released on bail pending further enquiries, until the 21st of September."

Staff at the restaurant were questioned by Police the day after the incident and the victim has since returned to work according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

- GigWise

[sriracha john]

Darren Hayes “Strenuously Denies” Alleged Racist Attack

Darren Hayes has “strenuously denied” the allegation that he racially attacked a waiter in a Thai restaurant.

As we reported yesterday, Hayes was arrested and questioned by police last Friday after staff at the Busaba Eathai restaurant in London accused him of racial abuse.

The incident is reported to have happened in the Wardour Street restaurant on July 22nd.

In a statement a spokesperson for the singer said: “Darren is unable to comment to any extent as the incident is presently under investigation by the police, with whom he has cooperated fully.”

The spokesperson continued: “However he is deeply upset at the allegation which he strenuously denies and anyone who knows Darren will recognise that the particular nature of the allegation is totally abhorrent to him and contrary to everything for which he has stood.”

Police took statements from members of staff at the Busaba Eathai restaurant on the day of the incident and the victim is believed to have returned to work.

- GigWise

[jingjoe]

Fair dinkum?

[lannarebirth]

What exactly is a "racial attack" or "racial abuse". Is it violent behaviour with racial intolerance being the cause? Or is it racial epithets? If it's the latter, can one really be arrested for that in Britain?

[Prakanong]

What exactly is a "racial attack" or "racial abuse". Is it violent behaviour with racial intolerance being the cause? Or is it racial epithets? If it's the latter, can one really be arrested for that in Britain?

Yes you can be arrested for that now in Britain - it does not have to be physical but racially motivated.

[bowthai]

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[lannarebirth]

What exactly is a "racial attack" or "racial abuse". Is it violent behaviour with racial intolerance being the cause? Or is it racial epithets? If it's the latter, can one really be arrested for that in Britain?

Yes you can be arrested for that now in Britain - it does not have to be physical but racially motivated.

That's interesting. I don't know if America has the same type of speech laws, as i've been away awhile. My initial reaction is, I don't like it. Better I think, to just take a beating for being an ######, than have the police tell you what you can say and not say. Unless you're inciting a riot of course.

[the scouser]

The offence in England and Wales has to be linked to an action which is otherwise an offence.

So, for example, it is not against the law to subject someone to racist taunts if that is all that is being done. However, if this bloke, hypothetically, thumped the waiter whilst using epithets which could be construed by another person as being racist, then this aggravates the original offence and he can then be done for both the assault and racial element.

Scouse.

[meadish_sweetball]

I truly, madly, deeply feel that this may be a mistake. Or did he actually try 'to live. like animal' and found it didn't work out so well in real life?

[samran]

I truly, madly, deeply feel that this may be a mistake. Or did he actually try 'to live. like animal' and found it didn't work out so well in real life?

whatever it was meadish, he "had it coming" with the excrutiating soppy crap that he has released upon the world. Karma, it catches up with all of us.

[lannarebirth]

The offence in England and Wales has to be linked to an action which is otherwise an offence.

So, for example, it is not against the law to subject someone to racist taunts if that is all that is being done. However, if this bloke, hypothetically, thumped the waiter whilst using epithets which could be construed by another person as being racist, then this aggravates the original offence and he can then be done for both the assault and racial element.

Scouse.

Thanks for clarifying Scouse. In the states, thats what they call a "hate crime". Very controversial.

[the scouser]

In the states, thats what they call a "hate crime". Very controversial.

Exactly what it's called in the UK, too, and as equally controversial.

Scouse.

[technocracy]

whatever it was meadish, he "had it coming" with the excrutiating soppy crap that he has released upon the world. Karma, it catches up with all of us.

Amen to that!

[scousemouse]

In the states, thats what they call a "hate crime". Very controversial.

Exactly what it's called in the UK, too, and as equally controversial.

Scouse.

And the penalties are equally steep .

[farangsay]

I truly, madly, deeply feel that this may be a mistake. Or did he actually try 'to live. like animal' and found it didn't work out so well in real life?

whatever it was meadish, he "had it coming" with the excrutiating soppy crap that he has released upon the world. Karma, it catches up with all of us.

Can we take you are not a fan then?

Never heard of him personnally and I intend to continue in the same vein.

[lazeeboy]

What exactly is a "racial attack" or "racial abuse". Is it violent behaviour with racial intolerance being the cause? Or is it racial epithets? If it's the latter, can one really be arrested for that in Britain?

Yes you can be arrested for that now in Britain - it does not have to be physical but racially motivated.

does this law work both ways ,or is it just for aliens.........

[farangsay]

What exactly is a "racial attack" or "racial abuse". Is it violent behaviour with racial intolerance being the cause? Or is it racial epithets? If it's the latter, can one really be arrested for that in Britain?

Yes you can be arrested for that now in Britain - it does not have to be physical but racially motivated.

does this law work both ways ,or is it just for aliens.........

No , people from Earth can get in trouble too.

[ozzydom]

I truly, madly, deeply feel that this may be a mistake. Or did he actually try 'to live. like animal' and found it didn't work out so well in real life?

whatever it was meadish, he "had it coming" with the excrutiating soppy crap that he has released upon the world. Karma, it catches up with all of us.

Julio Englasius he may not be samran,but the 11 million folk who bought the Truly,Madly Deeply album and kept it at No.1 for 13 weeks in the USA may consider they have better taste in music than you.

[SnakeBite]

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provacative posts deleted...

samran.

[samran]

I truly, madly, deeply feel that this may be a mistake. Or did he actually try 'to live. like animal' and found it didn't work out so well in real life?

whatever it was meadish, he "had it coming" with the excrutiating soppy crap that he has released upon the world. Karma, it catches up with all of us.

Julio Englasius he may not be samran,but the 11 million folk who bought the Truly,Madly Deeply album and kept it at No.1 for 13 weeks in the USA may consider they have better taste in music than you.

No, those 11million people have bad taste....

[bangkoksingapore]

savage garden is one of the worst bands in the history of music. jesus, were they bad.

[sriracha john]

Pop singer Hayes in race arrest

Former Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes has been arrested on suspicion of racially abusing a member of staff at a Thai restaurant, police have said.

The pop star, 35, handed himself in to police after an incident at the restaurant in Soho, London, on 22 July.

"He has been released on bail pending further inquiries," a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said.

A statement from Hayes' solicitor said the singer was "deeply upset" and "strenuously denies" the allegation.

"Darren is unable to comment to any extent as the incident is presently under investigation by the police, with whom he has co-operated fully," the statement said.

"Anyone who knows Darren will recognise that the particular nature of the allegation is totally abhorrent to him and contrary to everything for which he has stood."

Hayes formed Savage Garden with producer Daniel Jones in 1994.

They enjoyed nine UK top 20 hits between 1997 and 2000, including Truly, Madly, Deeply, To The Moon And Back and I Knew I Loved You.

The Brisbane-born singer released his third solo CD, a double album called This Delicate Thing We've Made, on Monday.

- BBC

[Aujuba]

Guess he won't be coming to Thailand anymore. If the Brits think he's getting screwed over maybe Thai food won't be as popular in the UK anymore at least at that restaurant.

Personally I like some of his music. He's a lot more peaceful than Rage Against the Machine or Metallica. But after this touch with reality he may stop singing love songs and create a new band named Savage or Rage of the Savages.

[mikethevigoman]

What exactly is a "racial attack" or "racial abuse". Is it violent behaviour with racial intolerance being the cause? Or is it racial epithets? If it's the latter, can one really be arrested for that in Britain?

IF you shout "you thai bastard " in england its racial abuse,.

[mikethevigoman]

What exactly is a "racial attack" or "racial abuse". Is it violent behaviour with racial intolerance being the cause? Or is it racial epithets? If it's the latter, can one really be arrested for that in Britain?

Yes you can be arrested for that now in Britain - it does not have to be physical but racially motivated.

does this law work both ways ,or is it just for aliens.........

No , people from Earth can get in trouble too.

[Payboy]

does anyone know if the staff member was even thai? there's lots of chinese and philipinos working in those "thai" restaurants in europe

[CarlBkk]

does anyone know if the staff member was even thai? there's lots of chinese and philipinos working in those "thai" restaurants in europe

I used to eat at this restaurant a lot cos I lived on the next street. I never once had a Thai waiter/waitress...they were all students from around the globe and if they were oriental, they were nearly always Malaysian, Korean or Taiwanese. The restaurant itself isn't really "Thai" either...it's fusion food, very different from the traditional Thai restaurants round the corner. It's still ###### good food though. I would suspect he went ballistic over the price (Soho expensive), the queues outside to get a seat or maybe the fact that you share tables (not a bad thing I'd say, but uncomfortable for the majority of Londoners).

In any case, he's not exactly Russell Crowe by nature, so quite hard to believe he was so bad. If he called a waiter a "Thai Tramp" but he's Vietnamese, can he still be done for racial assault I wonder?!

[Andrew Hicks]

I truly, madly, deeply feel that this may be a mistake. Or did he actually try 'to live. like animal' and found it didn't work out so well in real life?

whatever it was meadish, he "had it coming" with the excrutiating soppy crap that he has released upon the world. Karma, it catches up with all of us.

I guess he is alleged to have committed a racially aggravated assault, assault being a 'putting in fear' not actually amounting to a battery.

Inciting to racial hatred is an offence, as is behaviour that can cause a breach of the peace but I'm not sure that in UK mere abuse is necessarily an offence.

[naka]

What exactly is a "racial attack" or "racial abuse". Is it violent behaviour with racial intolerance being the cause? Or is it racial epithets? If it's the latter, can one really be arrested for that in Britain?

IF you shout "you thai bastard " in england its racial abuse,.

However ... shouting ... Ya Scouse Coont ... is a fair cop.

This has to be one of SRJ's more inane posts. Rabble rousing methinks !

Naka.

[jaiyenyen]

Pop singer Hayes in race arrest

Former Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes has been arrested on suspicion of racially abusing a member of staff at a Thai restaurant, police have said.

The pop star, 35, handed himself in to police after an incident at the restaurant in Soho, London, on 22 July.

"He has been released on bail pending further inquiries," a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said.

A statement from Hayes' solicitor said the singer was "deeply upset" and "strenuously denies" the allegation.

"Darren is unable to comment to any extent as the incident is presently under investigation by the police, with whom he has co-operated fully," the statement said.

"Anyone who knows Darren will recognise that the particular nature of the allegation is totally abhorrent to him and contrary to everything for which he has stood."

Hayes formed Savage Garden with producer Daniel Jones in 1994.

They enjoyed nine UK top 20 hits between 1997 and 2000, including Truly, Madly, Deeply, To The Moon And Back and I Knew I Loved You.

The Brisbane-born singer released his third solo CD, a double album called This Delicate Thing We've Made, on Monday.

- BBC

The last line say's it all. This is a third rate, hasbeen pop singer who has just released another waste of good plastic.

Didn't someone say that all publicity,is good publicity.

Having said that, his arrest is unlikely to make me go out and buy his CD

Rock On

Jaiyenyen