Duchess of Cambridge’s uncle, Gary Goldsmith, started boxing lessons weeks before punching his wife unconscious
The Duchess of Cambridge's uncle started taking boxing lessons weeks before he punched his his wife unconscious.
Shamed Gary Goldsmith, who this week pleaded guilty to assault by battering, practised his punches in a ring with a martial arts expert - just a month before he used them for real on his wife.
Recruitment tycoon Goldsmith, 53, sporting a spare-tyre midriff, appears to be labouring as he repeatedly strikes the sparring gloves of Anton Melenevski, 32.
Melenevski - a former professional MMA fighter and Thai boxer turned weight lifter - at one point is videoed ordering the trainee: "One-two."
But when Goldsmith responds with weak efforts, he shakes his head and tells him: "No, straight lines!"
The footage was taken by recruitment business partner Dean Kelly at Gymbox in the City of London and posted on Instagram on September 18.
Mr Kelly writes: "Putting in extra effort to shed those pounds."
Less than four weeks later in the early hours of the morning Goldsmith - the younger brother of Kate's mother Carole Middleton - felled 47-year-old wife Julie-Ann outside their £3 million Marylebone penthouse.
Westminster magistrates heard the drunken pair had argued in a taxi after attending a charity do in the capital.
Julie-Ann was left unconscious for 15 seconds by the punch to the face with a closed fist and suffered bruising to the cheek.
Goldsmith - worth £30 million - has been granted bail and will be sentenced next week but has been told he will not got to jail.
Magistrates warned him not to go near his estranged wife - and she is expected to be granted a retraining order against him after a series of incidents.
Their marriage of seven years is thought to be over.
