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Baseball attack on fleeing victim
A NIGHT out in Islington ended in horror for a man when a car travelling at speed was aimed at him.
Wayne Brown ran to get away but was struck and thrown across the bonnet, the Old Bailey has heard.
Mr Brown, 27, from Kentish Town, desperately stumbled across Essex Road to escape but was caught by three men who punched, kicked and battered him with a baseball bat, said prosecutor Roger Smart.
“One eye-witness described the bat attack on Mr Brown’s head as ‘sounding like a watermelon cracking’,” Mr Smart told the jury.
Four men await sentence for their parts in the violence on the night of August 29 last year which left Mr Brown lying in the road “covered in blood”. He was struck by the car and beaten up following a row with two strangers in a shop.
Chris Lindo Smith, 21, of Beresford Road, Highbury, and Robert Bradbury, 27, of Church Street, Stoke Newington, were convicted by a jury of causing serious injury.
Boz Burbridge, 23, of Morton Road, Islington, and Christopher Adani, of Essex Road, Islington, admitted their parts.
Judge Richard Hone, QC, will sentence the accused on May 18. |
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