It doesn't say anything about the police encouraging the victim to lie or Stephen being cleared of hitting him with a brick. It couldn't be proven what he hit him with.
You are curiously defensive of the instigator of this assault - who has just been sent to jail for another separate indiscretion.
Anyways, hopefully he can keep his nose clean when he gets out. It's not like he killed anybody.
I invoke my right under the 5th amendment of the United States constitution and decline to answer the question.
