Kicking him out of a Porsche over his smelly food was harsh, but that didn’t give a Wall Street trader the right to beat up the woman who ousted him.
Manhattan jurors took less than two hours to render a guilty verdict Tuesday against wealthy stockbroker Quintano Downes for the 2013 attack on a female bodybuilder who complained she couldn’t take the stink of his takeout Halal-cart food in her pal’s fancy car.
Sahara Walsh, 30, testified that Downes drunkenly hopped into the back seat of her pal’s sports car and demanded a ride home after a night of partying in Harlem.
“I told him to get out of the car with his stinky Halal food,” she said on the stand. “It was spicy, nasty street food. I said, ‘No, we’re not a cab. Get out of the car with your smelly Halal food.’”
The ex-Marine got out of the car and began walking away when Walsh said: “You broke n—-r!” the defense claimed. Angered, he went to the passenger-side window and asked, “What did you say?” he testified. Downes claimed the woman spit on him and kicked him through the window with her six-inch stilettos as he defended himself.
But Walsh, a personal trainer, denied she spit at him and said she only kicked him after he began pummeling her through the window. He dragged her out of the car by her hair, tearing out a tuft, and continued beating and kicking her, she testified. To her horror, she quickly realized she was missing her $2,000 David Yurman earring and began frantically searching for it.
“He threw me up against a building,” she said. “He was calling me a black whore bitch. I was afraid for my life. My shirt was ripped and I wasn’t wearing a bra so my breasts were exposed. My skirt was up to my waist.”
But Downes claimed Walsh was the foul-mouthed aggressor.
“She came at him like a wild woman,” said defense lawyer Bruce Roistacher in his closing statements. “At some point during this flailing she gets close enough to him he pushed her back, and as he testified, she fell.”
Downes faces up to a year in jail.
Courtesy of: New York Post