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Police Mug: Hutchinson

The multi-millionaire owner of the company which built Big Ben’s clock attacked a motorist while walking near his £3m Thamesside penthouse apartment.

Property developer and businessman Iain Catleugh Hutchinson, 51,  reigned down half a dozen blows on his 66 year-old victim, who says he was then kicked while on the ground.

The Geordie entrepreneur is a director of E Dent & Co Ltd., a 202 year-old firm, which built the mechanism that chimes Big Ben.

Hutchinson, of Montevetro Buildings, 100 Battersea Church Road, Battersea pleaded guilty to assaulting Jeremy Lyons, causing him actual bodily harm, in nearby Whistlers Avenue on May 29.

CCTV in the driveway of Mr. Lyons’ £1.4m home captured the attack and the footage was played at Wimbledon Magistrates Court.

Prosecutor Miss Jackie Hughes said it was nearly 2pm when Mr. Lyons, who has retired after working at Lloyds for twenty-five years as a reinsurer, turned his car into his private gated estate.

“He had to brake suddenly to avoid the defendant, who had stepped out into the road, and they both looked at each other for a couple of seconds.

Attacked: Jeremy Lyons

“He saw the defendant, Mr. Hutchinson, mouth the word: ‘C***.’”

CCTV footage shows Hutchinson, who has previous criminal convictions, step over a low gate and confront bespectacled Mr. Lyons by his car.

Grabbing the victim with his left hand he aimed blows with his right fist at Mr. Lyons, who circled his vehicle in a bid to escape.

Stocky Hutchinson drags Mr. Lyons to the ground off-camera and then leaves the scene.

He was arrested after CCTV cameras at the Montevetro Buildings captured him entering the landmark complex and police obtained a warrant to force the images to be released.

He claims none of his six punches connected and denies kicking Mr. Lyons and pleaded guilty because he admits dragging him to the ground, causing injuries.

The victim suffered a cut to his left elbow, left ring finger, bruising to his left leg, plus pain to his back and neck.

He told police: “The incident left me shocked and scared. I have been attacked in my front garden and now I am worried about going out of my house in case he is there again.

“My glasses were also damaged,” added Mr. Lyons, who had a CT scan before the incident for two bulging discs in his spine.

“I told him I had a bad back and he continued the onslaught.”

Mr. Lyons drove himself to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital at the 3am that night and he has received injections for back spasms since the assault.

Hutchinson swings a right-hander

Speaking after Hutchinson admitted the attack, the victim said: “I stopped right in front of him and he nearly walked into my car.

“I looked him in the eye as if to say: ‘You were lucky.’ It’s not my fault he’s walked off the edge of the pavement.

“I drove into my road and in my rear-view mirror I could see he was ‘effing and blinding, swearing and shouting and thought: ‘That’s stupid.’

“He punched me seven times and I have a bad back, which previously needed two operations and the last thing I needed was him punching me.

“I was in agony everywhere and could not walk for two weeks and could not sleep for three nights.”

Mr. Lyons says only a neighbour responding to his pleas for help ended the attack.

"Onslaught" of punches continues

District Judge James Henderson said: “This is a sustained attack on a victim in his own front garden.

“The defendant chased the victim all around the houses as he tried to get away and the victim says there were kicks.”

Hutchinson was committed to Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court for sentencing on a date to be fixed.

Since he was charged Hutchinson has been banned by the police from entering Whistlers Avenue, interfering with witnesses or otherwise obstructing justice.

Dent supplied a timepiece to the 1st Duke of Wellington and built the new St. Pancras Station clock.

Former civil engineer Hutchinson’s dream was to build thousands of £300 per-week three-bed flats for Londoners.

He is currently an active director with 14 different companies.