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Idi Amin’s grandson disqualified from Commonwealth Games boxing for head-butt

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The Commonwealth Games debut of Idi Amin’s grandson ended in ignominy and disgrace as the boxer was disqualified in the third round for head-butting his English opponent – and then launched a bitter verbal assault on the referee. Things then took an even more bizarre turn as Aziz Abdul, a 25-year-old from Uganda, refused to speak to a journalist afterwards because of what he had written about the tyrannical dictator. “No, not you,” Abdul told the man from the Press Association. “I don’t like you.” A Ugandan team official quickly clarified: “It is because of the things you said about his grandad.” Amin is estimated to have killed half a…

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