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Attack was due to ‘loss of temper’
5:00am Friday 28th December 2012 in News
Attack was due to ‘loss of temper’
A JUDGE told a Southampton man who kicked and repeatedly punched another man to the head: “Your trouble is that you lost your temper and went too far.”
Judge Andre Barnett heard John Harrison had been severely provoked by the victim Richard Ferguson who had been drinking and acting aggressively.
Prosecutor Daniel Sawyer told Southampton Crown Court independent witnesses had seen Mr Ferguson running at Harrison and his father. Harrison turned round and kicked him, causing him to fall over. He then sat astride him and repeatedly punched him. The victim suffered a lost tooth, damage to dental bridge work as well as facial cuts.
Harrison, 28, of Sycamore Road, Southampton, admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm, which put him in breach of a three-month suspended sentence imposed for theft and burglary. He was jailed for six months.
Comments(9)
elvisimo
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10:36am Fri 28 Dec 12
Ozmosis
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3:54pm Fri 28 Dec 12
For pity sake wrote:No problem!
Ozmosis wrote:Thank you for your concise and insightful analysis - I'm sure we were not able to work that out for ourselves.
It does sound like the perp went overboard, but the "victim" sounded like he started it by being "gobby"
tophat79
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7:30pm Fri 28 Dec 12
elvisimo wrote:I no this person and yeah he is a nice guy. Do u not have nothing better to do than sit reading the echo and slagging people pathetic !!!! Sad people
So apart from gbh and er robbery, a thoroughly nice guy
Smartie12
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7:55pm Fri 28 Dec 12
tophat79
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8:00pm Fri 28 Dec 12
Smartie12 wrote:Well said
Drunken men thinking they can take on the world ! when your in that situation and someone starts what you going to do just stand there and get kicked in , no but because he fought back he looks bad lets hope you don't get into that and someone starts on you ! There is loads of innocent ppl out there that take a good kicking for no reason I would stand up for myself and my father to ! Rant over
J.P.M
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12:37am Sat 29 Dec 12
Seems the MENSA bus were sharing a laptop with internet access.
Pikey-Biker
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6:34am Sat 29 Dec 12
tophat79 wrote:yeah right, a right little charmer
elvisimo wrote: So apart from gbh and er robbery, a thoroughly nice guyI no this person and yeah he is a nice guy. Do u not have nothing better to do than sit reading the echo and slagging people pathetic !!!! Sad people
Subject48
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3:12pm Sat 29 Dec 12
Hitting someone is easy. Stepping up and not bringing yourself down to their level; is a lot harder.
With a suspended sentance over his head. Showed a complete disregard for the public trust and empathy showed to him.
Ozmosis says...
10:10am Fri 28 Dec 12