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arranged a date with a Bromley school girl, Carol
Goldsmith, only for David to tell him she had
changed her mind and wasn’t coming. Soon George
discovered that David, who fancied Carol himself,
had lied – Carol had waited in vain for George
before going home after an hour or so, distraught
that she’d been stood up. David’s plan was to
swoop in on the abandoned girl, but when
Underwood discovered the dastardly scheme there
was an altercation. Underwood, enraged, impulsively
punched his friend in the eye, and by some mishap
scratched his eyeball. ‘It was just unfortunate. I didn’t
have a compass or a battery or various things I was
meant to have – I didn’t even wear a ring, although
something must have caught. I just don’t know how it
managed to hurt his eye badly … I didn’t mean it to
be like that at all.’
The damage was serious. David was taken to
hospital and his school-mates were told he was in
danger of losing the sight in his left eye. Underwood,
mortified, heard that Haywood and Peggy Jones
were considering charging him with assault. With
David absent from school for several weeks, George
eventually plucked up enough courage to go and see
Haywood. ‘I wanted to tell him it wasn’t intentional at
all. I didn’t want to maim him, for God’s sake!’ The
injury to David’s eye resulted in paralysis of the
muscles that contract the iris, leaving the pupil
permanently dilated and giving it the appearance of
being a different colour from his other eye. His depth
perception was also damaged. ‘It left me with a
wonky sense of perspective,’ David explained later.