A year or so ago, petroleum trader Jeremy Aylmer punched IT executive Charles Cox outside London nightclub Floridita. Now he might go to jail because Cox was knocked unconscious, never came to, and died 20 months later. According to the Aylmer’s lawyer, he never meant to kill the guy! Or even hurt him too much! But, you know, shit happens. Also, naturally, this was over a woman.
“The defendant was drunk and he was pestering a young woman outside the nightclub and Mr Cox intervened and pushed him away from the woman, and the defendant punched him,” claimed the prosecutor. “The defendant claims he was acting in self-defence, protecting himself from Mr Cox. But you will hear from witnesses present at he scene and will see a CCTV recording of what happened, and we say, it was not self-defence. Mr Cox, who was carrying his briefcase and umbrella in one hand, was not offering violence to the defendant. He was telling him in robust language to go away. There was simply no need at all for the defendant to use any violence, but he chose to punch and punch hard.” The barrister said there was no suggestion Aylmer intended to kill Mr Cox or even cause him such severe injuries. But the punch was “deliberate, forceful, and aimed at Mr Cox’s face.” He added: “Not a single witness suggests that Mr Cox offered any violence at all, and it was this defendant who, without warning, suddenly and unnecessarily used force out of all proportion to the situation he was in. That, we say, makes his punch unlawful, and an unlawful assault that causes the death of another person, even many months later, is manslaughter.”
Jurors heard Mr Cox was married but separated from his wife, and was vice president of IT firm EDS, owned by Hewlett Packard. On November 22 he had been out drinking with colleagues, and they ended up in the Floridita. He and American accountant Jeffrey Starks chatted to two women, Angelica Martinez-Vargas and Jemina Luizaga, at a table near the bar. Aylmer, a keen surfer, arrived later in an overcoat and hat, and flirted with Ms Luizaga on the dancefloor, the court heard. But after he said something which offended her she rejoined the group at the table, telling them what happened. When Aylmer came over again Mr Cox told him to go away. Ms Martinez-Vargas described the IT executive as “very polite, talkative, happy, not drunk.”
“Petrolium”???
Terrible story. Must have been one hell of a shot.
one-punch machine gun
THAT Yale thing.
fuckin IT guys
Sorry for partying? Don’t be.
Killing a guy is the new killing it
from petroleum trader to prison ass pony in one punch.
Poor guy, actually. I punched a few people (and got my ass kicked as well) back in the day. Thank god nothing like this happened.
There going to love this guy in jail. He’s going to be a salad tossing machine.
@8 I’m sure by “there” you mean “they’re”
Are you writing from prison?
@6 Nice. Beat me to it.
@7 – Amen brother.
~RonRon
sounds like he took the chump to fist city… get this guy a job at Gryphone Financial
Eggshell egghead. Vosburg v Putzy.
Five Pointed Palm Exploding Heart Technique?
@6 – Very close. Killing an IT guy is the new killing it.
– Fixed Income
That’s one shot, that’s one shot
- Ronnie (Chaz’s nephew who was on the Jersey Shore)
That’s why Ping Jiang recommends female hormone treatment, to avoid losing your traders to such fits of roid-rage. What a tool.
“I didn’t hit it that hard. It must’ve had a self-destruct.”
Han Solo from ESB
Well done @15
Perfect execution
Who was the pugilist petroleum trader working for?
Mike Tyson lol
how did this event occur “a year or so ago” and the guy died 20 months later?
-guy whose calendar has 12 months
@22 This happened in SoHo. In London. London is in a different time zone.
- another former Lehman quant
What a shameful set of comments.
It must be devastating for the family of the deceased and the defendants world must be in pieces . Most men have had a drunken scuffle without a tragedy like this unfolding 20 months later. Have some empathy .
The dumb ass trader should be executed Chinese style…period
What do expect out of a keen surfer?
is this junior high school? fighting over some chick they were competing for and looking to bang? stupidity rule the world
@18
Great shot, kid. That was one in a million.
Wonder if the Spanish chick feels bad for being such a tease and starting this.
- Misogynist guy who looks out for fellow oil traders
I hate fucking pikeys
Floridita sucks – what a dump
If the laws were fair in this current world, they would drop the case. Jeremy Aylmer, no doubt obnoxious, reacted and unless he was swinging a club, gun, tire iron, etc……HE DOESN’T DESERVE PRISON. If most of we, the animals (males) of this society would just keep their hands to themselves and shut the fuck up AND WALKaway……ta ta….you know. I have had a couple chances to do severe bodily harm to another man, while thinking of the consequences, and walked away shaking…..I am still on this side of the grass. Our Dads taught us to defend ourselves then you do not intentionallly kill soomeone and the law (who is never around when needed)shoves it up your ass. Make the law happy and just sit in your car or stand outside a club and let some drunk bastard walk up and kill you and don’t do nothing…..turn other cheek…..sssuuuuurrrreee @24 I wish the world were intelligent.
@31
you almost would be worth the jail time
@ Seaman Bodine – Concur
@ 23
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G
Literally loled
How does the Starbucks waitress know there was no suggestion Aylmer intended to kill Mr. Cox…she doesn’t even know how to make an orange mocha frappacino.
-Derek
Not a Surfer, just a poseur http://www.cotswoldjournal.co.uk/news/local/chippingnorton/4031509.Timbuktu_or_bust_for_surf_mad_City_trader/
Also the IT guy was 56 -
You kill a guy, you pay for it.
25 years. Tough luck.
Wow, a trader getting drunk and acting like a dick — go figure
my man should be getting an award
@35 – Fighting is for Neanderthals. Real men do a walk-off.
I’d hardly call a candyass Euro-banker upset over poon-nanny hitting Samir Nayenenenajar “fighting”.
No empathy here for Jeremy or for his family. I guess he thought alcohol was his friend. Lengthy gaol (Chiefly British.Variant of jail) time for Jeremy and financial restitution to Mr. Cox’s family by Jeremy because of Cox’s “wrongful death” is surely appropriate for the arrogant bastard, Jeremy.
Oh, and Jeremy’s family? Having them suffer is also appropriate, since they benefited handsomely from his earlier criminal trading activities. Cox’s family should sue the shit out of Jeremy.
Living large in London, Jeremy? The only large you’ll be experiencing in the near future is the size of your anal opening. Youch!
The Guy from Delaware
Commie bastard
Can we ban TGFD already? Dude, you’re such a buzzkill.
@42 Since when was selling something that you bought a crime? Go to North Korea. The guy was an asshole for throwing a punch instead of reasoning, it has nothing to do with his dayjob. In fact, seeing how emotional he was he probably was not a stellar trader.
Anonymous@#45…
Everybody on Main Street knows that energy traders are criminals. It’s common knowledge there, but perhaps from where you sit, you haven’t noticed. BTW, throwing the punch may have had a lot to do with Jeremy’s dayjob. Alcohol, when combined with stress and arrogance can produce an unfortunate series of events.
FinkNottle@#44…
Sorry about the buzzkill; you’re right. I did try to liven it up a bit at the end, but I guess that fell short.
Anonymous@#43…
You can’t possibly be talking about me. TGFD? A Commie bastard? Never. I just don’t particularly care for John Paulson’s brand of Capitalism. You know, the kind that produces nothing and that exports nothing other than a lot of pain for Main Street and three booms and busts in nine short years.
The Guy from Delaware
What did the 5 fingers say to the face? Slap!
Again with the ginger sucker punch!
UUUUUUUNIIITTTYYYY
Financial transactions allow a lot more goods, services, and technologies to be produced than there otherwise would because of fragmented, illiquid resources – you should thank corporate financing and securitization for the home, health, and computer that you currently enjoy at such a small portion of your labor compared to peasants of old. Financial innovation is not an inherently bad thing, but just like any other tool it can potentially damage in addition to building.