QM2 - Ship bars fight dad

**Ally** · 12-29-2007, 08:31 AM

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A dad was thrown off a Christmas cruise ship in the Caribbean after he was involved in a fight.

Anthony McNamara, 32, had to leave his daughter of nine with his parents on the Queen Mary 2.

He also had to pay for his flight back from the British Virgin Islands.

But he claimed he was only defending himself from a stranger's attack.

Anthony, from Benfleet, Essex, said: "I was the victim and for that I was thrown off the ship."

Cunard said: "Two guests were disembarked.

"The circumstances are being investigated."

Ship bars fight dad - Mirror.co.uk

**Ally** · 01-07-2008, 07:31 AM

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Details are being revealed in the UK where The Mirror has told of a male passenger being thrown off Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 when a fight broke out last week.

It now appears the man, who was one of two people asked to disembark, was a 32-year-old father, and had to leave his nine-year-old daughter on the ship with his parents.

While details are sketchy and Cunard is keeping tight-lipped, the man did tell the UK paper that while he was involved with the fight, “I was the victim and for that I was thrown off the ship.”

The passenger was left on the British Isles and had to make his own way back to his home of Essex.

Cunard has said the incident is still being investigated.

Queen Mary 2 caused a stir down under last year when it visited both New Zealand and Australia.

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