While that could be the case, it really doesn’t matter - does it?
Just another in a long (and getting longer) list of a smoker being assaulted by an anti.
I think it does matter. You did a good job of pulling the crux of the article out and proving why the headline and the first two sentences were inconsistent with the real story.
Then these “journalists” wonder why their papers are going under and they are unemployed.
It wouldn’t have mattered if the woman was inside eating celery sticks with this other man. This drunken jealous idiot would have assaulted him anyway.
She probably rejected him months ago.