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Caergwrle taxi driver leaves man unable to see after 'threats' to blind passenger



Colin Williams, 56, left man with hemorrhage to the eye and fractured nose in attack in Crown pub

A TAXI driver left a man unable to see after beating him for allegedly threatening a blind customer.

Colin Williams, 56, repeatedly punched his victim in the Crown pub in Caergwrle near Mold.

The incident happened when the blind man - a friend of Williams’ son - got into his taxi and complained threats had been made to him by another pub-goer.

Williams dropped the man off and then returned to the pub, set upon his victim and hit him six times.

The man’s vision was left affected by the attack and he was left with fractures to his nose.

Williams, of Lester’s Lane Higher Kinnerton near Chester, admitted wounding John Alan Parsonage following the incident on February 15 this year, but escaped an immediate prison term.

He was ordered to pay £500 compensation and £356 costs, together with a £100 surcharge, and Mold crown court heard the conviction would put a question mark over the defendant’s continued employment as a taxi driver.

Emmalyne Downing, prosecuting, said that an ambulance was called and the victim had a swollen face and closed left eye.

He had a hemorrhage to the eye and there was a fracture of the left orbital floor and nose in the February 15 attack.

His vision had been affected, he had previously played rugby and was confident, but was now less confidence and rarely went out.

Henry Hills, defending, said Williams had acted completely out of character, adding it was “a bizarre and shocking incident”.

He realised the seriousness of what he had done, and found it difficult to comprehend his own behaviour, Mr Hills said.

“This was an extremely unpleasant and nasty incident with consequences for his victim,” he added.

The judge, Recorder Paul Hopkins QC, said that within moments of entering the pub, Williams pushed Mr Parsonage onto a bench and repeatedly struck him.

Mr Hopkins, who watched CCTV footage of the incident, said he made no finding that the victim was responsible for any threatening behaviour towards the blind man.

source: http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-w ... an-9333371

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

If only the criminal record of the "victim" could be printed here. The guy is a thug and there won't be many tears shed for his injuries around the area.

The cruelty of the judges, sometimes striking

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Really?

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IDFIMH

They initially took his badge off him when he was charged but he appealed and won it back. They are waiting for the court to sentence him before they take it again.

I don't think he won it back, more he was given it back during the appeal process in line with the law.

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IDFIMH

He wasn't given it back during the appeal process, he had to appear before the magistrates who told the LA to give him it back pending the outcome of the court case.