New video shows Stokes mocking disabled teen
English cricketer Ben Stokes looks to have landed himself in even more trouble after a new video emerged showing him mocking a teenager with disability.
Stokes has been suspended by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) after he was arrested following a brawl outside a Bristol pub in the early hours of Monday.
The Sun subsequently released vision of the shocking street fight, showing Stokes throwing a flurry of punches at two men.
The all-rounder's Ashes prospects hang in the balance, and this new video certainly won't help his cause.
The Express on Friday published a Snapchat video of Stokes imitating Harvey Price, the 15-year-old son of UK model Katie Price.
The video shows Stokes making fun of an incident where Harvey, who has Prader-Willi syndrome, appeared on TV show Loose Women and said the word ‘c***’.
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Katie asked her son: “Harvey, if someone says something horrible to you, what do you think?”
Harvey replied: “Hello.”
Katie then asked: “You’d say hello? If someone says something horrible to Harvey, what does Harvey say?”
“Hello you c***” Harvey replied.
According to The Sun, Katie is furious about the new video.
“She’s got no idea who Ben Stokes is, and she’s never met him, so it’s outrageous that he would want to ridicule her son like this,” the paper quotes a friend of the mother.
“He doesn’t deserve this, and especially not from a man who is in the public eye who should be setting an example to other people.”
The ECB said in a statement on Thursday that both Stokes and teammate Alex Hales remained on full pay pending further investigation into the bar brawl.
Stokes was arrested on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm and then released without charge under investigation on Monday, but has remained under investigation ever since.
Hales was with him at the time of the incident.
"Ben Stokes and Alex Hales will not be considered for selection for England international matches until further notice," the ECB said.
"These decisions, fully supported by ECB chairman Colin Graves, were made following the release of footage viewed by ECB for the first time on Wednesday night."
Media reports said Stokes, who suffered a minor fracture of a finger on his right hand, had apologised to the ECB for his arrest and described his state of mind as "fragile and devastated".
Should the 26-year-old definitively be ruled out of the tour Down Under, it would be a huge blow for England whose chances of defending the Ashes in Australia have already been called into question.
with AAP