Duo convicted of attacking taxi driver
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TWO men ganged up on a taxi driver after he had thrown one of them out of his cab.
During a late night bust up in Deansgate, businessman Martin Brown punched Lee Seager and pushed his fingers into his left eye.
Minutes earlier ex-boxer Mr Seager had tangled with Brown’s pal Mark Pearson and stopped him from attacking his girlfriend.
Brown, 34, of Waterside, Sale, was convicted after a two-day trial at Manchester Magistrates’ Court of assaulting Mr Seager and two counts of criminal damage.
Pearson, 34, of Moorside Road, Swinton, was found guilty of assaulting Mr Seager and two counts of criminal damage.
Both men were sentenced to 300 hours unpaid work and a three-month curfew keeping them indoors between 8pm and 6am - and ordered to share £750 prosecution costs.
They were also ordered to each pay £100 compensation to Mr Seager and the same amount to another taxi driver.
Prosecutor Jennifer Baines said Mr Seager had been parked up on Deansgate when a woman got into his cab and asked to be taken to Swinton.
Moments later boyfriend Pearson got into the back and began punching her about the head and the driver intervened and threw him out.
This led to Brown punching and gouging the complainant and Pearson thumped him in the head.
But Mr Seager, an ex-boxer, fought back and struck both men in self-defence, the court heard.
Miss Baines said damage was caused to a window and wing mirror of Mr Seager’s vehicle.
Damage was done to another taxi after the driver came between the trio to defuse the situation.
John Black, defending, said both men bitterly regretted the incident and Brown had suffered a fractured collarbone and Pearson ended up needing hospital treatment for various injuries.
The magistrates told Brown: “You are lucky not to have been facing a more serious charge.”
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