The family who were involved in a furious incident with former World's Strongest Man Eddie Hall have broken their silence.
Hall, a three-time strongman champion who has transitioned into MMA and won his debut bout for Polish promotion KSW last month, went viral online after confronting two motorists and telling them he would "f***ing rip all your heads off" if they didn't move from outside his house in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
In a 30-second clip, Hall was heard screaming at one of the drivers in an expletive-filled rant.
He shouted: "F**k off, or I'll f**king do you all. F**k off ... I couldn't give a f**k. What about my kids?"
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Hall then continued and said: "Get out. Get out, you f**king p***k. I'll rip your f**king head off. "All of you. Get out and I'll f**king rip all your heads off, you p***k."
The video showed Hall charging towards the car for a second time, leading to the man filming commenting: "What the f**k? He's just tried to grab me out of my own car," as a child cried in the background.
Hall addressed the incident on his official Facebook page, claiming the video was a mere 30-second clip from an incident which lasted 25 minutes.
He stated that three cars were situated outside his house at 9pm and left his children "very scared" by beeping their horns and proceeded to give a more detailed breakdown of the events in a YouTube video where he went through CCTV footage.
Hall also claimed he was threatened by one of the drivers and that he had no idea they had kids in the car until the very end of the dispute as he issued an apology for upsetting them.
Cousins break silence on being 'chased' by Eddie Hall outside of his property
Cousins Callum Cadwallader and Kevin Walker have now given their version, explaining they visited the house after a birthday dinner nearby.
“We visited the home at 8.26pm,” Callum told Stoke-on-TrentLive.
"At 8.31pm his wife [Alexandra] came out and asked us to move up the street as she said we were scaring the kids.”
Callum said that he and his family adhered to the request but was shocked to see Hall swing his car door open.
“I was furthest ahead with my cousin behind. I thought my cousin had put him up to it to stitch me up,” he stated.
“He swung the door open and swears at me. I told him I had kids in the back and my girlfriend is pregnant. I had no intention of recording but after that I started recording.”
Kevin stressed that they were only outside the proximity of the house for "three or four minutes" and were there as his stepson, who has autism, is a huge fan of Hall and is "fascinated" by the gates at his house.
“He [Eddie] then came out of an alleyway with the dog and went to Callum's car," he explained.
"Then he came raging at me. I said I haven't come to cause trouble,” he continued.
“I think he saw Callum filming. We didn't go here to do a video. It only started after he ragged Callum's door open.”
In a 30-minute video which racked up one million views, Hall said he was unfairly painted as "an ogre" and urged people to leave him and his family alone.
He said: "You know, people are sticking up for me, but there's always those that don't understand the situation, that won't read my response, that won't read the context to the video, they'll just see Eddie Hall threatening to rip people's heads off for innocently sitting outside the house with with your kids.
"That's how you put it. And it just paints me as an ogre. And it's not fair. You people are the ogres. You people need to learn the lesson from this, not me. Leave my family alone."
Having been contacted, Staffordshire Police are appealing for witnesses over the matter - while Hall has called for the public to refrain from harassing the people he had the episode with.
In the comments of his video, Hall pleaded: "Please no one contact, abuse or harass the people involved in the incident. They have young children and I don't want any emotional or especially physical harm whatsoever to come to them or their families.
"The shame from their backwards video going viral and backfiring on them is enough in my opinion!"
Topics: Eddie Hall, MMA
Josh Lawless