Former MTV Canada VJ sent to jail for bar fight
Last Updated: Thursday, May 22, 2003 | 12:00 AM ET
CBC Arts
CALGARY - A former MTV Canada VJ and Calgary resident was sentenced to six months in jail for blinding a man in one eye during a bar fight.
Brad Leggatt pleaded guilty last month to assault causing bodily harm for striking Christopher Hunt in the face with a beer glass in the Sept. 29, 2001 attack.
His lawyer asked for a conditional sentence, saying her client would pose no danger to the public if he didn't go to jail.
But the judge said Legatt needed to be punished as a warning to others.
Leggatt was at Cowboys Dance Hall to celebrate his hiring at MTV Canada when the fight occurred.
After being struck in the face, Hunt doubled over, bleeding from his wound.
Leggatt then kneed him twice in the head. "What I find to be particularly aggravating is your kneeing of Mr. Hunt, not once, but twice in the face, when he was particularly vulnerable and unable to defend himself," Justice Carolyn Phillips said. Leggatt was the co-host of MTV's Select, a daily 90-minute program featuring interviews, music and movie news.
He left the MTV job last October to work as an announcer at Z95.3 in Vancouver.
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