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British dad-of-three killed on stag do in Prague after being hit with glass bottle in a ‘blind attack’

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Updated 13:06 17 May 2025 GMT+1Published 13:01 17 May 2025 GMT+1

British dad-of-three killed on stag do in Prague after being hit with glass bottle in a ‘blind attack’

A man has been sentenced to seven years in prison

Joe Harker

Joe Harker

Featured Image Credit: Wales News Service

Topics: UK News, World News, Crime

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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A man has been sentenced to seven years behind bars after a British dad-of-three was killed on a stag do in Prague.

31-year-old David ‘Dai’ Richards had been in the Czech capital last September when he and his friends met another group of tourists in the popular European city.

Police said an argument broke out between the two groups and Richards was struck in the head with a glass bottle. He was then rushed to hospital.

His family had received a call from one of his friends to tell them what had happened and they flew to Prague in the hope that he would regain consciousness, but the decision was made to switch off his life support.

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A spokesperson for the police explained: "At first, everything was calm and the tourists were chatting normally.

"Then there was a rift between them and one of them hit the other in the head with a vodka bottle. The blow was so strong that the injured person immediately fell to the ground and unfortunately died in hospital."

The dad-of-three was struck with a glass bottle in September (Wales News Service)
The dad-of-three was struck with a glass bottle in September (Wales News Service)

Police said detectives had launched a search for the man who struck Richards and acted quickly because they knew a tourist might leave Prague soon.

Officers arrested a 26-year-old man outside his hotel in Prague on charges of grievous bodily harm and disorderly conduct.

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German man Joel Hoppe, now 27, pleaded guilty to the charges against him and was sentenced to seven years in prison as he said he acted in a fit of rage while being under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

He has also been ordered to pay 4.7 million crowns (£158,758) in damages to Richards' family, and will be banned from the Czech Republic for 10 years.

Hoppe is reported to have told the court: "Not a day goes by that I don't think about the late David and his children. I will accept whatever sentence you give me."

The man who struck him has been sentenced to seven years in prison (Wales News Service)
The man who struck him has been sentenced to seven years in prison (Wales News Service)

Judge Daniella Sarah Sotolářová took into account the man's show of remorse and said she believed Hoppe 'did not want to cause the death of the victim' when passing his sentence.

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Richards' family said the South Wales dad was an 'absolutely amazing father, partner, son, brother, and friend' who was the 'glue of the family'.

Speaking on the strike with the glass bottle that killed him, Richards' family said: "It wasn't a fight like what I think some people are thinking - it was a blind attack.

"From the attack he actually passed away from blunt force trauma. David was talking to locals in the street when he took a blow to the back of the head."

Richards' post-mortem examination provisionally gave his cause of death as brain trauma, swelling, and haemorrhaging.

He had three children with his partner Jola Simms, Aurora, four, Bear, two, and one-year-old Vienna.

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