Considering his status and fame, well, I wouldn't be surprised if people changed their numbers constantly.
As for telling him he won't go, surely it would be legally dodgy and get both Sutil, his defence and Lewis in trouble.
Not going for any reason but saying its because you have a corporate event is one thing, if you make a call or leave an e-mail saying, my evidence won't help you and it will look bad, I dunno, somehow it comes across as worse.
As for being there for a friend, sure, but you don't have to stay friends with people who do things you don't agree with. One of my mates kills someone in self defence I'm all over helping him, he kills someone out of revenge or something stupid, or randomly glasses someone, he becomes someone I do not want to be friends with.
There was a story out there that while Lewis was there on the night he wasn't actually there during the incident, and when he heard about it he went back and asked to see the security footage. Suggests to me that possibly he simply saw something he didn't like, at all, and washed his hands with Sutil. Maybe he saw it was going to be a crapstorm and just didn't want his name involved and he is being a **** about it, who knows.
Simple fact is his evidence won't do anything, Sutil did in fact smash a glass into someones neck, I'm sure they called up plenty of people to say what a lovely smashing(maybe not
) chap he is, why involve your mate in it or have him possibly lie on the stand to help get you off something you simply shouldn't have done?
The kind of irksome thing about the statements from Sutil and his father well, they come across as putting the blame on the biggest name they could, make the story about Lewis and make it appear like he'd have been found not guilty if Lewis bothered to show up.
Sutil didn't seem to take blame, it was all excuses, same for his father, they are trying to make the story as little about Sutil as possible.
