They added that the actor "had to get stitches and is recovering".

“He had to get stitches and is recovering. The police were called and the matter is now in law enforcement’s hands.”

“I said good morning, b—.” The victim received 11 stitches for her injuries after hitting her head on the street when she fell.

Backstrom later described the injuries in a handwritten grievance he sent to prison officials in 2011: stitches and metal pins in his pinky and ring finger.

She told the Commons last month the bill needed "sufficient scrutiny to stitch together a complete garment out of what is presently threads and patches" that could be challenged in court.