Prince fined €443,200 for drunken assault

Prince Ernst August of Hanover, a cousin of the Queen of England, was fined €443,200 today for attacking a hotel owner in Kenya in a drunken rage.

A Hanover state court concluded that the German prince repeatedly hit Josef Brunlehner, owner of a hotel on Lamu Island, with a metal object in January 2000, causing “potentially life-threatening injuries”.