Matthew Feargrieve, 43, hit Ulrich Engler after losing his temper when the victim sat next to his partner Catherine Chandler, in Row A, just before the third act of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Engler said he asked Chandler if he could sit in the vacant seat next to her. Matthew Feargrieve, 43, was found guilty on Monday of punching Ulrich Engler at least once while attending a performance of Wagner at the Royal Opera House on October 7, 2018. I was trying, ineffectually it turns out, to deal with a situation, which as I saw it was something happening to Catherine.

Matthew Feargrieve, 43, was found guilty on Monday of punching Ulrich Engler at least once while attending a performance of Wagner at the Royal Opera House on October 7, 2018.

The solicitor and barrister lashed out at Engler after the designer moved from his seat in Row B into an empty seat in Row A next to Feargrieve’s partner Catherine Chandler and moved her coat. Matthew Feargrieve, 43, was found guilty on Monday of punching Ulrich Engler at least once while attending a performance of Wagner at the Royal Opera House on October 7, 2018. Catherine Chandler Matthew Feargrieve law Assault crime Royal Opera House The Real Victims Here Ulrich Engler Tweed Coats. A solicitor has been convicted of assaulting a fashion designer during a row in the front row of an opera house. When she said he could not, he asked whether she had purchased the extra seat. Photograph: David Mirzoeff/PA. Matthew Feargrieve, an investment funds lawyer, was found guilty of punching Ulrich Engler at least once at the the Royal Opera House in central London in October of last year. Ms Chandler said she had not, and so Mr Engler moved into the seat with a better view than his own, moving Ms Chandler’s coat and putting it on her lap. Hedge Funds. By.

Engler is a respected high society couturier, with illustrious clients including the Countess of Derby.

Feargrieve replied: "I was at the opera, I wasn't a yob in a football stand. Matthew Feargrieve was found guilty of punching Ulrich Engler at the Royal Opera House. Jon Shazar. Matthew Feargrieve, 43, leaves City of London magistrates court. Matthew Feargrieve, 43, hit Ulrich Engler after losing his temper when the victim sat next to his partner Catherine Chandler, in Row A, just before the third act of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Mr Engler, who was originally sitting in Row B, irritated Feargrieve when he moved Ms Chandler… Matthew Feargrieve, 43, was found guilty on Monday of punching Ulrich Engler at least once while attending a performance of Wagner at the Royal Opera House on October 7, 2018.

Chandler and Feargrieve say Engler threw the coat on the floor, and then pushed Chandler into Feargrieve when she went to retrieve it, dislocating his arm. Matthew Feargrieve, a 43-year-old barrister, has been found guilty of punching fashion designer Ulrich Engler, while the pair attended a performance of Wagner.

As Siegfried, part of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, began Matthew Feargrieve lost his temper with Ulrich Engler, who had sat down next to the barrister’s partner, Catherine Chandler. A hedge fund lawyer who punched a fashion designer in a row over seats at the Royal Opera House has been fined £900 and ordered to compensate the victim.