Father attacked man outside pub

1:30pm Tuesday 4th September 2012 in News

Father attacked man outside pub Father attacked man outside pub

A FATHER who punched a man in an unprovoked attack outside a Worcester pub has walked free from court.

Scott Humphries, aged 20, of Rose Avenue, Worcester, admitted assaulting Daniel Turner and being drunk and disorderly in two separate incidents when he appeared at Worcester Magistrates Court .

Police were called about 1am on August 18 after reports of Humphries shouting at a group of people outside Subway in the Cross, the court was told.

Sarah Stock, prosecuting, said at an earlier incident on May 6, Humphries had thrown a punch at Mr Turner outside the Brewery Tap pub in Lowesmoor.

CCTV footage shown in court showed the assault taking place just before 3am, which left Mr Turner with a small cut and bruising to his left eye and a swollen hand.

In his defence, Chris Hilton said that the brawl followed an incident between Humphries’ uncle and a friend of Mr Turner’s in the pub earlier on in the evening.

“Humphries thought the complainant was responsible for what had happened in the pub,” he said. “He very much regrets it. It’s wholly out of character.”

Magistrates gave Humphries an 18-month conditional discharge, ordered him to pay £100 compensation and £85 costs.

Comments(7)

More Tea Vicar says...
1:41pm Tue 4 Sep 12

any particular reason why the 'father' element of this story is so important?

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GetReal888 says...
2:29pm Tue 4 Sep 12

It's the news. They try to make it sound as bad as possible.

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jb says...
2:32pm Tue 4 Sep 12

More like a feeble attempt by the defence solicitor to excuse the violent behaviour and offload some of the blame.

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Lordyworcs says...
3:29pm Tue 4 Sep 12

More Tea Vicar wrote:
any particular reason why the 'father' element of this story is so important?
At a guess I'd suggest because the headline "utter twonk who shouldn't be sold anything stronger than a Orange & Passionfruit J20" wouldn't get past the sub editor?!?

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mr.meldrew says...
3:56pm Tue 4 Sep 12

lordyworcs, wonderful observation...love it..

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spider666 says...
4:18pm Tue 4 Sep 12

Lordyworcs wrote:
More Tea Vicar wrote:
any particular reason why the 'father' element of this story is so important?
At a guess I'd suggest because the headline "utter twonk who shouldn't be sold anything stronger than a Orange & Passionfruit J20" wouldn't get past the sub editor?!?
I like Orange and Passionfruit J20 ---that's me staying out the papers lol

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iamthebinman says...
8:19am Thu 6 Sep 12

The father bit is very important because if you have a young child and are not employable due to a violent conviction, the income support and housing benefit will be an endless flow of our taxpayers money. Set up for life for £185. He should be able to get some cash in hand work to pay for cigs, alcohol and a plasma tv!!

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