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Teenager Davern Pinnock of Fartown admits baseball bat road rage attack which injured father and son on Leeds Road: A window cleaning father and son were both assaulted after their van was attacked by the occupants of another vehicle which had cut in front of them. The violence erupted after David Jones senior beeped his horn at the Renault Clio which pulled in front of him, causing him to brake sharply in in Leeds Road, Huddersfield.
Kathryn Stuckey, prosecuting, told Leeds Crown Court yesterday the occupants of that car began gestures towards him and his son David. He drove on but the Renault Clio then turned round and began to follow them. When he had to stop at a traffic light on red Mr Jones was shocked when his driver’s side window was suddenly smashed causing glass to go over him.
That had been done by a man holding what appeared to be a metal baseball bat. Mr Jones got out rather than be “a sitting duck” and grabbed the bat. They stumbled across the road with him being punched several times and he could see his son was being assaulted by two other men. Those two men then joined the attack on him before the trio eventually drove off.
The incident was witnessed by at least one other motorist who called the police. Mr Jones was bleeding and suffered dizziness, while his son was also injured from punches and kicks. Miss Stuckey said one man was identified as Davern Pinnock who denied having a weapon but accepted he was party to a joint enterprise.
Pinnock, 18 of Aquamarine Drive, Fartown, accepted assaulting causing actual bodily harm to both men. He also accepted breaching a previously suspended sentence by failing to attend activities when required and failing to attend court on an earlier date. Yunus Valli representing him said that suspended sentence had been imposed after the assaults for offences committed earlier than them and he had changed his life since then including helping his mother with siblings.
“He is a young intelligent man and is genuinely remorseful and ashamed what he did that day.” Judge Rodney Jameson QC said it was difficult to accept his remorse as genuine when he failed to attend court and had not admitted guilt as early as he could. He sent Pinnock to a young offender institution for a total of 17 months saying whoever had the weapon the van window was smashed in a joint enterprise and the two men assaulted. “They both required stitching to cuts caused in the course of the assault.”
Kathryn Stuckey, prosecuting, told Leeds Crown Court yesterday the occupants of that car began gestures towards him and his son David. He drove on but the Renault Clio then turned round and began to follow them. When he had to stop at a traffic light on red Mr Jones was shocked when his driver’s side window was suddenly smashed causing glass to go over him.
That had been done by a man holding what appeared to be a metal baseball bat. Mr Jones got out rather than be “a sitting duck” and grabbed the bat. They stumbled across the road with him being punched several times and he could see his son was being assaulted by two other men. Those two men then joined the attack on him before the trio eventually drove off.
The incident was witnessed by at least one other motorist who called the police. Mr Jones was bleeding and suffered dizziness, while his son was also injured from punches and kicks. Miss Stuckey said one man was identified as Davern Pinnock who denied having a weapon but accepted he was party to a joint enterprise.
Pinnock, 18 of Aquamarine Drive, Fartown, accepted assaulting causing actual bodily harm to both men. He also accepted breaching a previously suspended sentence by failing to attend activities when required and failing to attend court on an earlier date. Yunus Valli representing him said that suspended sentence had been imposed after the assaults for offences committed earlier than them and he had changed his life since then including helping his mother with siblings.
“He is a young intelligent man and is genuinely remorseful and ashamed what he did that day.” Judge Rodney Jameson QC said it was difficult to accept his remorse as genuine when he failed to attend court and had not admitted guilt as early as he could. He sent Pinnock to a young offender institution for a total of 17 months saying whoever had the weapon the van window was smashed in a joint enterprise and the two men assaulted. “They both required stitching to cuts caused in the course of the assault.”
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