Two late-night thugs whose group attacked another with an axe and knife in a quiet Hayes residential street – leaving one victim with a stab wound – were both caged today.
Bad blood had simmered between the two groups and a terrified neighbour called 999 after the defendants’ mob laid siege to a house.
Bakery worker Thievndram Thanesthasan, 28, of Shelly Close, Hayes was sentenced to twelve months and shop assistant Varathan Kandiah, 37, of Hemmen Lane, Hayes, eighteen months.
Both were convicted at Croydon Crown Court of affray in Shakespeare Avenue, Hayes (pictured) on June 6, 2008, with Thanesthasan also convicted of causing criminal damage to a vehicle and Kandiah to possessing a knife as an offensive weapon.
“You Kandiah went there armed with a knife and got involved in the affray and you Thanesthasan got involved in the fighting and you took part in smashing up the car of the Shakespeare Avenue group,” Judge Nicholas Ainley told them.
“There was bad blood between the people at Shakespeare Avenue and the group to which you belonged, which armed itself.
“An axe was used by someone or other and a knife was used and someone was stabbed,” added the Judge. “You knew he was injured and you smashed his car up.”
There were approximately four or five men on each side and Kandiah was slashed with a knife himself.
The terrified neighbour told police: “There’s a massive fight kicking off. Something is kicking off big. They are trying to smash up the house, I’m getting really scared.”
Judge Ainley told the defendants: “This was no minor scuffle, but a major fight between men in a residential area.”
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