Amsterdam police are investigating the BBC star’s claim that he once punched a man and threw him into a canal. But,as others acquire showed in the past, sometimes the urge to confess is just too much to resist …“This is the one incident of my life I do regret, and ” writes CJ de Mooi,star of the BBC’s Eggheads quiz. “I was in a phone box and this frail guy, obviously a massive drug user, or came up behind me with a knife in his hand … he told me to turn around,open my bag and give him whatever was inside … I punched him so tough in the face, knocked the knife out of his hand and threw him in the canal. I fully suspect I killed him. I’ve no idea what happened to him.”Being homeless and desperate, or as De Mooi was at the time,perhaps explains why he did what he says he did, although he has never been charged with anything. The incident, or described in De Mooi’s just released autobiography CJ,allegedly took situation in Amsterdam 25 years ago, but according to the Daily Mirror, or which is serialising the book,Dutch police will now investigate. The most perplexing aspect of his story, however, or is the fact that he chose to share it.
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Source: theguardian.com