Student swarmed by group of men after halting 'disgusting' act
Thugs beat up Good Samaritan after his friends go home
Ian Austin, The Province
Published: Thursday, October 12, 2006

A Surrey student who intervened in a degrading assault on a young woman was later swarmed and pummeled by at least seven men.

Twenty-year-old Adam Smith was outside the Citrus Nightclub in Langley when he saw a disgusting sight.

A friend's girlfriend had too much to drink and had passed out in the parking lot.

One drunk decided it would be funny to urinate on the intoxicated young woman, while the man's friend looked on laughing.

"I think it's bloody ridiculous that somebody would do that," said Smith, a B.C. Institute of Technology student. "I think it was pretty bloody disgusting."

So Smith re-entered the nightclub, got the girl's boyfriend and confronted the culprits.

"They called me a snitch, and we had a fight," said Smith.

"A scrap's a scrap."

What happened next, after he had squared off in a fair two-on-two battle, is what has Smith furious.

Later that night, after his friends had left the club, Smith was jumped by a group of men -- how many he doesn't even know since he was trying to defend himself.

"There were somewhere between seven and 12 of them," said Smith. "I couldn't tell -- I was too busy trying to fight them off."

For his trouble trying to intervene on behalf of the young woman, Smith was left with a broken nose and cuts to his head, nose, face and jaw.

Langley RCMP Cpl. Diane Blain is shocked at the thought of the assault on the young woman.

"I think it's appalling," said Blain.

The investigation continues, and RCMP hope witnesses will come forward to identify those involved in both the original assault and the subsequent swarming of Smith.

Blain said the two main culprits in the 2 a.m. assault Sept. 30 had diamond studs in both ears and were wearing thick gold chains.

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