Tuesday 23 May 2017

Engineer Guilty Of Racist "Terrorist" Outburst At Heathrow's Passport Control

Guilty: Timothy Wynne-Jones 
A chartered engineer told Asian Border Force officers at Heathrow Airport: “Your kind are going to let terrorists into the country,” when held-up during a routine passport check.

Timothy Alban Wynne-Jones, 54, was told his passport would have to pass a forgery check and replied: “So, you’re not going to let me into the country. You’re going to let these terrorists into the country.”

Wynne-Jones, of Beechcroft Avenue, Rickmansworth was convicted of two counts of racially aggravated harassment towards officers Afsheen Raja, 36 and Naheed Yacub, 34 on January 22, last year.

He was bailed until June 15 for sentencing and will be allowed to continue travelling abroad extensively for work.

Isleworth Crown Court heard Wynne-Jones presented his British passport at Terminal Four after a trip to Bulgaria.

The microchip could not be opened and when he heard a supervisor named Harpreet was needed Wynne-Jones responded: “Another Indian? There are far too many Indians protecting the border.”

Prosecutor Mr. Alec Williams told the court: “Rather than wait Mr. Wynne-Jones’ response is to get annoyed and become racially abusive.”

The jury heard that as a bearded Asian male passed through passport control Wynne-Jones added: “Ah look. You’re letting a terrorist through. I’m the only British person here, you’re all terrorists.”

Mr. Williams said Wynne-Jones continued: “Look. A terrorist protecting the border. Brown people should not be protecting the border, you’re all terrorists.”

“He also tried to push through the gate before clearing passport control.”

Naheed Yacub & Afsheen Raja
When questioned by police Wynne-Jones conceded he may have been abrupt, but denied using the racist words.

Officer Raja told the jury: “He seemed a little aggressive, talking quite loudly.

“He said: ‘When are you going to stop letting the Bulgars into the country?’

“He asked me that several times, but I ignored him.”

When his passport was taken for a forgery check Wynne-Jones became more annoyed. “He said it was the British government issuing these Mickey Mouse passports.” added Mr. Williams.

When the forgery officer returned he asked: “Are you checking that I’m British?”

Officer Raja took offence at the ‘your kind’ comment. “I felt because I’m of Asian origin he was referring to my race.”

Officer Yacub told the jury: “He laughed and said to me: ‘Ah look. We have a terrorist protecting the border.’

“He said I wasn’t British and I didn’t have a British passport.”

Afterwards she said: “This is a groundbreaking case for Border Force. This is the first successful prosecution of this kind we’ve had.

“We won’t tolerate abuse and this case is a lesson for officers not to take it. We can’t tolerate this racism.

“He assumed being a respectable businessman would bring him a not guilty verdict. 

“He was arrogant, authoritative, dismissive and said we were not good at our jobs.

“All this stuff about brown people and terrorism has to stop. We are the people who make the system work.”

Sunday 21 May 2017

Steakhouse Glassing: Woman Jailed

Affray: The Meat & Co
A female steakhouse customer, who attacked another woman with a glass and punched her in the head, has been jailed for eighteen weeks.

Latoya Casely-Hayford, 26, of Potterne Close, Wimbledon also smashed the victim's specs and glassware at The Meat and Co in Westfield Shopping Centre, Shepherd's Bush.

She pleaded guilty to assaulting Paula Mejia, causing her actual bodily harm, on February 13 and causing criminal damage to her spectacles.

Casely-Hayford also pleaded guilty to causing an affray at the restaurant and causing £40 worth of criminal damage to glassware.

She was sentenced at Westminster Magistrates Court, which also imposed a £115 victim surcharge.

Saturday 20 May 2017

Charity's IT Tutor Nicked £25,000

Leaving Court: Saeed
An IT tutor at a charity for young jobseekers, who secretly ordered £25,000 worth of computer equipment he then sold off, has received a suspended prison sentence.

Qasim Saeed, 26, needed the cash after being forced from his muslim family’s home when they disapproved of his relationship with a christian girlfriend.

He pleaded guilty to stealing £25,378.99 between November 24, 2016 and January 13, this year from Walworth’s Second Chance charity.

Inner London Crown Court heard Saeed, of Cecil Road, Ilford taught 18-25 year-olds, some of them ex-offenders, IT skills and was responsible for ordering computer equipment.

On the charity’s website he says: “Being at Second Chance gives me the opportunity to combine my love for IT and my enthusiasm to help young people achieve meaningful careers.

“My IT workshops are focused on giving trainees real life IT skills that are needed in a working environment.”

His lawyer Miss Priya Malhotra told the court: “It pains him that he was someone that deprived that charity of funds.

“His muslim family has a very traditional background and when he fell in love with a christian woman he kept if from his family because he knew they’d disapprove.

“He was compelled to run away from home and his family reported him missing and the police found him in Milton Keynes.

Saeed: Walking Free
“He left home after his father threatened to commit suicide.”

Now a £400-a day IT consultant Saeed claims he spent much of the money on hotel rooms and to repay debts.

Recorder Sir Geoffrey Nice QC told Saeed: It’s a serious offence made worse by the nature of the body from whom you took goods.

“You also have the unusual good fortune that the charity you defrauded don’t want you to go to prison and have taken a very understanding attitude.

“This is an agonising experience as a result of your own actions.”

Saeed was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment, suspended for 2 years, ordered to complete 150 hours community service and repay the chair in full within 18 months.

Friday 19 May 2017

Engineer Denies Angry "Terrorist" Slurs At Passport Control

A chartered engineer told Asian Border Force officers at Heathrow Airport: “Your kind are going to let terrorists into the country,” when held-up during a routine passport check, a court heard.

Timothy Alban Wynne-Jones, 54, was told his passport would have to pass a forgery check and allegedly replied: “So, you’re not going to let me into the country. You’re going to let these terrorists into the country.”

Wynne-Jones, of Beechcroft Avenue, Rickmansworth has pleaded not guilty to two counts of racially aggravated harassment towards officers Afsheen Raja and Naheed Yaqub on January 22, last year.

Isleworth Crown Court heard Wynne-Jones presented his British passport at Terminal Four after a trip to Bulgaria.

The microchip could not be opened and when he heard a supervisor named Harpreet was needed Wynne-Jones allegedly responded: “Another Indian? There are far too many Indians protecting the border.”

Prosecutor Mr. Alec Williams told the court: “Rather than wait Mr. Wynne-Jones’ response is to get annoyed and become racially abusive.”

The jury heard that as a bearded Asian male passed through passport control Wynne-Jones added: “Ah look. You’re letting a terrorist through. I’m the only British person here, you’re all terrorists.”

Mr. Williams said Wynne-Jones continued: “Look. A terrorist protecting the border. Brown people should not be protecting the border, you’re all terrorists.”

“He also tried to push through the gate before clearing passport control.”

When questioned by police Wynne-Jones conceded he may have been abrupt, but denied using the racist words.

Officer Raja told the jury: “He seemed a little aggressive, talking quite loudly.

“He said: ‘When are you going to stop letting the Bulgars into the country?’

“He asked me that several times, but I ignored him.”

When his passport was taken for a forgery check Wynne-Jones became more annoyed, the court heard. “He said it was the British government issuing these Mickey Mouse passports.”

When the forgery officer returned he allegedly asked: “Are you checking that I’m British?”

Officer Raja took offence at the ‘your kind’ comment. “I felt because I’m of Asian origin he was referring to my race.”

Officer Yacub told the jury: “He laughed and said to me: ‘Ah look. We have a terrorist protecting the border.’

“He said I wasn’t British and I didn’t have a British passport.”

Trial continues…………  

Thursday 18 May 2017

Bent Solicitor With Property Empire Raided The Inheritances Of Grieving Relatives

A crooked solicitor, who swindled £160,000 from two grieving relatives when administering the estates of their deceased loved ones, has been jailed for five years.

Tyrone Anthony Walker, 58, of Tower Road, Twickenham simply paid cheques into his personal bank account and tried to cover his tracks, also depriving charities of pay-outs.

He was found guilty by Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court of seven counts of fraud, committed between April, 2008 and July, 2012 at south-west London’s Walker’s Solicitors.

Walker defrauded widow Hans Bala Chand of £45,528 she was due from her deceased mother’s estate and £114,000 from Dr. Mark Downham, the beneficiary of his deceased uncle’s estate.

Some repayments have been made, but Walker, who has a property portfolio of five homes, faces compensation proceedings.

Prosecutor Miss Charlotte Newell told the court: “Mrs Chand was plainly distressed when she gave evidence. She had trusted Mr. Walker completely.

“There was personal communication between them and she clearly thought of him as a trusted friend.

“She says it was a terrible mistake that he took advantage of her kind nature and she was incredibly vulnerable at that stage of her life.

“As she says: ‘I was an easy target.’ She thought she’d be retired now, but she’s still working full-time to meet the financial obligations as a result of Mr. walker’s dishonesty.”

Dr. Downham still rues the six-and-half years he says Walker “thwarted” his uncle’s will and says charities “dear to my uncle’s heart” were deprived of money for years.

Walker took ‘loans’ from clients to finance a Bulgarian property investment and used his clients’ money to pay a £10,000 tax bill.

his dishonesty also damaged the legal career of the firm’s partner Trevor Nathan, who he tried to blame while fighting the case throughout.

“He also used money to pay his partner five thousand pounds. He was using it as his private bank account,” explained Miss Newell.

“There was the deliberate targeting of of a vulnerable victim, Mrs Chand, from whom a considerable amount of money was taken.

“There was serious detrimental effects on the victims.”

Recorder Mark Bryant-Heron QC told Walker: “You abused your position to deceive clients of your firm and you removed and kept at your home address the two client files.

“Your offences constitute a gross breach of trust of the highest gravity. You sought to blame Trevor Nathan, saying he was incompetent or worse and the jury did not believe you.

“You are a man of ability now facing a bleak future. You brought this on yourself.”

his lawyer David Burgess said his client takes medication for a heart condition. “His next destination, HMP Wandsworth is not likely to improve his stress levels.” 

Walker was repeatedly disciplined by the Law Society and suspended for two years in 2011.

He tried to hide £29,300 he took from Dr. Downham by describing it as inheritance tax even though the estate was not subject to the charge.

The four Coventry Building Society accounts held by Mrs Chand’s mother were not included in the estate, but used to pay another client’s stamp duty on a £785,000 Weybridge house.

“She should have had over fifty thousand pounds, but it was reduced to a few pence by supposed loans,” explained Miss Newell.

“He never paid that money back. She chased Mr. Walker for the money and he told her he had no funds and earned no money.

“She was fond of Mr. Walker and was apologetically asking for her own money and seemed to want to take him out for a meal before he moved to Dubai.”

Wednesday 17 May 2017

MK Dons Fan Cleared Of Threatening Behaviour After Clash Vs AFC Wimbledon

A young Milton Keynes Dons fan, arrested after his team's 2-0 defeat to rivals AFC Wimbledon, has been cleared of threatening behaviour despite telling a policeman to: “F*** off.”

Alex Makel, 20, of Roeburn Crescent, Emerson Valley says the police line were forcing him onto the wrong coach, which was already overcrowded with supporters.

Wimbledon magistrates found him not guilty of using threatening behaviour in a Homebase car park outside AFC Wimbledon's Kingsmeadow stadium, New Malden on March 14.

Police said Makel was part of an aggressive group of away supporters shouting abuse and trying to get at AFC Wimbledon fans, resulting in him being forced to the ground and handcuffed.

I showed no intention that day to show harm to anyone,” he told the trial. “They were ushering us toward a coach that was full so we held our ground.”

PC Stuart Everton earlier told the court there was a tense atmosphere outside the ground and Makel was “very aggressive” and had to be pushed back as he tried to break the police line.

He then became more aggressive, his fists were clenched, his eyes were fixed on me and he was repeatedly shouting: 'F*** off.'

His eyes were bulging and he and he seemed shocked and surprised that I had pushed him in the chest.”

Makel said: “I'd say it as more a push to the throat and I did tell the officer to: 'F*** off.'

A number of AFC Wimbledon fans came into the car park where their cars were parked and began shouting abuse at the Milton Keynes Dons fans.

The officer grabbed me and pushed me back towards the coach.”

Makel told the court he goes to all home and away matches with a group of ten friends and has never been in trouble before.

The magistrates found the prosecution failed to prove he intended to use threatening behaviour.

Tuesday 16 May 2017

Teen Nicked For Gun-Shaped Mobile Phone Case

Hendon Magistrates Court
A teenager has been nicked and prosecuted after police decided her gun-shaped mobile phone case was an imitation firearm.

Jobless Alice-May Fletcher, 19, of Monks Park, Wembley, north-west London was hauled before Hendon Magistrates Court.

She pleaded guilty to possessing an imitation firearm in a public place, namely Roxeth Hill, Harrow on January 10.

Fletcher was fined £10 and ordered to pay an £85 victim surcharge, which will be deducted from benefits.

She must also comply with a probation service rehabilitation activity requirement up to a maximum of twenty days.

Monday 15 May 2017

Heathrow Worker Jailed For Burberry Handbag Thefts

A Heathrow Airport employee has started a twelve-month prison sentence for stealing thousands of pounds worth of designer handbags.

Matthew Coker, 46, of Priory Close, Bel Air Chalet Estate, Seawick, Essex fought the case, but was convicted.

He targeted high-value handbags manufactured by leading brand Burberry.

He was found guilty by an Isleworth Crown Court jury.

They found he swiped the highly-prized handbags twice over a two-day period two years ago.

Coker was originally charged with two counts of theft by employee, namely Burberry handbags valued at £6,350 and £3,350 on February 4 and 6, 2015.

Sunday 14 May 2017

Precious Metals Investment Scam: Four Jailed For £7.75m Plot

Sabin & Ridpath Sold "Worthless Barrels Of Junk"
Four precious metals investment scammers, who duped hundreds of customers out of £7.75m in savings and pensions for “worthless barrels of junk”, have been jailed for a total of 29 years.

Using a misleading website and inaccurate glossy brochure they either cold-called customers with scripted patter or placed ads offering the opportunity to purchase supposedly lucrative metals vital to 80% of the world’s industry.

Ringleaders Christopher Sabin, 44, of Eyot House, Church Street, Shoreham, Sevenoaks and Tobias Ridpath, 52, of Wellington Square, Hastings each received nine years.

Prolific salesman Nicholas Start, 35, of Spencer Close, Pamber Heath, Tadley, Hampshire, who pocketed at least £132,000 in commission over a few months received seven years.

William Berkeley, 52, of Barrington Court, Chichester Terrace, Horsham joined the scam near its conclusion, running their Switzerland office and received four years.

All four were convicted by a Blackfriars Crown Court jury of to conspiring to defraud investors by making false representations and a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing will follow to confiscate their profits.

Prosecutor Mr. David Durose told jurors Denver Trading - started by Sabin and Ridpath -  was run from a short-term £860 per month office in the City.
Pension Pirate: Ridpath

The court was told Start headed a “prolific” brokerage - London Commodity Markets - and Berkeley took over the Swiss branch of the business after the original director quit, claiming the business “stank horribly.”

One typical investor, Cecil McMurray, invested £243,000. “He lost a vast amount of money.”

Another client bought 100 kilos of rare metals in September, 2012 for £39,000 and two-and-a-half years later that investment was worth £285.

The investors did not know approximately 50% of the money they handed over immediately went to the company as a sales commission - halving the investment, the jury were told.

“Not one of them have made a penny and they have lost pension pots and life savings. The losses are in the millions and millions of pounds.

“They were duped into investing,” explained Mr. Durose, who said the fraud lasted approximately one year from Spring, 2012.

Judge Rajeev Shetty said today: “All the buyers have ended up with worthless barrels of junk, either gathering dust or have long since been disposed of. The loss to them has been total, no one has made one pound back.

“The jury found this was all a scam, a ruthless vehicle designed to rip-off people of their savings and pension pots to make you all wealthy.

“Making as much money as possible was the name of the game and that game is now up.” 

Investors were wooed with promises of returns on investments in Rare Earth Metals and Rare Earth Elements, which were vital in engineering and manufacturing.

Jailed Again: Fraudster Start
The court heard dad-of-three Sabin and father-of-two Ridpath founded the company in the Seychelles on February 23, 2013 and quickly gave it the trappings of a successful business.

They had previously been disqualified as company directors, with Sabin running a suspicious fine art investment company and Ridpath a discredited champagne investment firm.

Judge Shetty told Start, who had only been out of prison for six months for a £100,000-plus fraud. “You knew what was going on. You were a skilled manipulator with a skilful sales patter and approachable facade.

“Your greed was so great that you asked customers, who had already invested large sums, to cash in Premium Bonds and ISA’s and you got the details of their family and friends to rip them off as well.”

The judge described their sales practices as “threatening and intimidating” with over 600 investors deceived. “Many were retired, some of advancing years and likely to be vulnerable and were targeted without remorse.”

He told Sabin and Ridpath: “You are driven by greed and a thirst for money and both of you have been funding your family lives on the losses of others and their family lives.” 

Mr. Durose told the jury: “The huge commissions are utterly inconsistent with any legitimate investments. Purchasers were not told about the size of the commissions and some were lied to.”
Swiss Miss: Berkeley

Only around 15%-20% of investors money ever went towards buying the rare metals.

“There is no resale market for these metals. They were almost useless as an investment.”

The price of such metals has been falling since 2011, added Mr. Durose. “The investors were blatantly lied to.”

Sabin and Ridpath hid behind a nominee director and nominee shareholder and when later quizzed by police claimed they were no more than business development managers and did not run the company.

Their website developer also quit his involvement in November, 2012, unimpressed by Sabin and Ridpath.

By then their were 1900 customer contracts on the system and dozens of sales staff selling rare metals to investors.

Customer were told their investment would double or triple over three to five years, with Denver Trading’s commission a modest 5%.

One investor was even promised a 1000% return in five years, but he and other customers were paying a five-fold mark-up.

The jury heard £5.6m ended up in a Cypriot bank account controlled by Sabin and Ridpath.

Sabin and Ridpath have been disqualified from running a company for 15 years; Start ten years and Berkeley six years.

Saturday 13 May 2017

Paediatric Doctor Had Sick Child Porn Stash

A specialist childrens doctor, who was caught with over 50,000 sick images of youngsters he had collected online for years, has been locked-up for sixteen months.
Dr. Ediz Ekrem, 31, of Lordship Lane, Dulwich, was employed within the paediatric unit of an unnamed south London Hospital.
He was sentenced at Croydon Crown Court where he was also handed a ten-year Sexual Harm Protection Order.
Dr. Ekrem pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent photographs of children.
On the October 28, last year police from Operation Bellona, part of the Met's Paedophile Unit, raided Ekrem's home and seized his laptop and a hard drive.
When questioned Ekrem confirmed he had downloaded indecent images of children, but then deleted them.
He was found to be in possession of 187 category A images (the most serious rating), 92 category B images and 51,641 category C images - a total of 51,851 images.
None of the images were accessed whilst Ekrem was at work, nor were they of any of his patients.
The General Medical Council was informed and immediately withdrew Ekrem's licence to practice medicine pending the outcome of the police investigation.
Detective Constable John Daly, the investigating officer from the Met's Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command, said: "An appropriate sentence has been handed down today.
“Ekrem is a person who was supposed to be trusted and responsible for looking after the most ill and vulnerable in society.
“He has abused that trust by committing this offence. Ekrem was feeding a market for the most appalling and perverted images for a number of years.
"The sharing and making of indecent images of children is an abhorrent crime and one that the Metropolitan Police Service will continue to pursue and bring the perpetrators before the courts."

Friday 12 May 2017

Man Denies Breaking Keira Knightley Restraining Order And Child Porn Charges

A man accused of breaching a restraining order by tweeting Hollywood actress Keira Knightley has denied the charge.

Mark Edmund Revill, 50, appeared in custody at Blackfriars Crown Court, where a trial date for September 4 was set.

He pleaded not guilty to breaching a restraining order imposed on December 1, last year at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court between January 1 and April 1, this year.

Revill, of Glebe Road, Hackney also pleaded not guilty to making indecent photographs of a child at his home address on March 31 and distributing indecent photographs of children on March 9.

He is currently prohibited from contacting the 32 year-old Pirates of the Caribbean star and going within 100 metres of the £3.9m Islington home she shares with ex-Klaxons musician James Righton, 33 and two year-old daughter Edie.

Refill’s lawyer Miss Lisa Wilson told the court: “The fitness to plea form has been completed and he’s been found fit to plea.”

Keira herself may be requested by Revill to give evidence and the prosecution will consider an application for “special measures” if that is the case, allowing the star to address the jury from behind a screen.

Judge John Hillen told shaven-headed Revill, who was wearing a black and silver sports vest, he would be remanded in custody until the trial.

Thursday 11 May 2017

"Privileged" Ex-Public Schoolboy's Tenfold Prescription Fraud

An ex-public schoolboy, who entertained Savoy hotel guests with his piano recitals, was told to take advantage of his “privileged position” to help kick his drink and drug addiction.

Solicitor’s son Piers Robert Fairweather Edmondson, 33, forged his prescription to obtain ten times the amount of an anti-anxiety drug he became dependent on.

The King’s College graduate was raised by his parents — who spend most of the year in the Cayman Islands - at their £2.75m home in Crabbett Wood, Itchingwood Common Road, Oxted.

On Monday he was sentenced at City of Westminster Magistrates Court after spending nearly four weeks in custody.

Fairweather, who quit the Royal College of Music due to his heavy drinking, pleaded guilty to possessing an article for use in fraud, namely a forged prescription at Boots, St. John’s Hill, Battersea on November 21, last year.

He also pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation at Boots, Victoria two days later and two counts of jumping bail, one of which put him in breach of a conditional discharge.

Fairweather was fined a total of £450, but magistrate Victoria Readman announced that due to time served in custody he would no have to pay a penny.

“Having the two prescriptions on two separate occasions and altered for you to gain more medication than you were entitled to are serious offences,” she told him.

“You are in a very privileged position in that you have a caring and loving family, who support you.

“A lot of young men do not have that support and due to your mother’s assistance there is an opportunity to attend a rehab centre in Derby.

“If you do not want to change yourself then it’s not going to happen. You obviously have enormous talents and are very intelligent so don’t ruin your life.”

Prosecutor Miss Carly Loftus told the court Edmonson initially entered Superdrug in Battersea. “He offered a prescription that had been tampered with for tablets for anxiety.

“A zero had been added to the four to make forty tablets and when this was pointed out he claimed his nephew must have tampered with it.

“He then went to Boots and offered the same prescription, but on this occasion the police were called and he was arrested.”

Edmondson tried a similar scam two days later. “He handed in a prescription, which the pharmacist told him was not legal.

“The defendant said he would return to his doctor friend to complete it, but he had filled-in the details himself.

“He also tried to increase the dose, using a letter from 2013 as proof, but staff received an alert from the NHS warning Edmondson was using forged prescriptions.”

The probation service told the court Edmondson led a “chaotic lifestyle” and had relapsed after recently spending five weeks in a rural rehab centre in Scotland.

He is on a methadone prescription for recovering heroin addicts and also developed a dependence on his anti-epilepsy drug pregabalin. 

Edmondson has been on Employment Support Allowance and his parents also helped pay for various accommodation.

His lawyer Miss Stephanie Panchkowry told the court: “The offences stem from his drug abuse.

“He is a very gifted man and read medicine at King’s College before switching to philosophy and graduating with a 2:1.

“He also played piano in the main foyer of the Savoy.

“He was suffering at the time of the offences and was drinking and using drugs.”  

His father, James Fairweather Edmondson, is a retired solicitor, who specialised in trusts and wills and is head of the Halecat Charitable Trust, based in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Piers attended £35,000-a year The King’s School, Canterbury, whose alumni include Field-Marshal Bernard Montgomery; actor Orlando Bloom; former England cricket captain David Gower and TV chef Antony Worrall Thompson. 

Wednesday 10 May 2017

GUILTY: Dad Convicted Of Thumping Son During Drunken Row After 'Boro's Play-Off Loss

Guilty: Mark McKenna Sr.
A father, who decked his teenage son during a drunken family row near Wembley stadium after enduring Middlesbrough FC’s play-off final defeat two seasons ago, has been convicted.

Mark McKenna ,45, was seen by police punching Mark McKenna Jr., 18, to the ground, leaving the youngster spitting blood, Harrow Crown Court heard.

The jury convicted him of inflicting grievous bodily harm on his son and he was bailed to June 9 for a pre-sentence report.

He was found not guilty of the more serious charge of causing GBH, with intent, outside a pub on May 25, 2015.

McKenna Sr., of Matford Avenue, Middlesbrough claimed he was the peace maker during the family’s post-match drinking session and was leading his son away.

Doctors later discovered McKenna Jr’s jaw was fractured in two placed, but it may have already broken after a weekend of brawling with family members and a pre-trip fight.

The family had travelled to London the day before, but their team were defeated 2-0 by Norwich City, who were promoted to the Premier League.

Mark McKenna Jr.
McKenna Sr. told police he had nine beers that day and intervened outside a pub when his son attacked his cousin Sam just before midnight.

He says his son then turned on him and McKenna Sr.’s father, Derek, 65, had to step in. “He attacked me and his grandad had to drag him off.

“I think I hit him back for hitting me, the top of his head, it was not hard. I was angry for him attacking me, there was no need for it.”

McKenna Sr. insists this blow could not have fractured his son’s jaw because it was aimed at the top of his head and didn’t knock him over.

Earlier McKenna Jr. reluctantly gave evidence and confirmed he had a fight in Middlesbrough on the eve of the trip that left his face swollen.

He had five or six cans of beer before the match and was angry with Sam. “He was winding me up and intimidating me, saying he was going to boot some respect into me.”

McKenna Jr. has three fights with Sam on the matchday, decking him twice and wanted to continue brawling when his father split them up.

He admitted punching his father, almost knocking him over, and “squaring up” as his dad tried to lead him away.

“I wanted him to get out of the way to get to Sam,” McKenna Jr. told the jury, admitting he was ready to strike his father again.

A passing police officer watched the confrontation and witnessed McKenna Sr. decking his son with a single blow.

He was taken to Northwick Park Hospital for treatment to a double jaw fracture.

Tuesday 9 May 2017

Dad Decks Son After Middlesbrough FC's Play-Off Loss

Punch: Mark McKenna Sr.
A father broke his teenage son’s jaw in two places during a drunken family row near Wembley stadium after enduring Middlesbrough FC’s play-off final defeat two seasons ago, a court heard.

Mark McKenna ,45, was seen by police punching Mark McKenna Jr., 18, to the ground, leaving the youngster spitting blood, Harrow Crown Court was told last week.

However, McKenna Sr., of Matford Avenue, Middlesbrough claims his son’s jaw was probably already broken after a weekend of brawling with family members.

He has pleaded not guilty to causing grievous bodily harm, with intent, plus a lesser alternative charge in High Road, Wembley on May 25, 2015.

The family had travelled to London the day before, but their team were defeated 2-0 by Norwich City, who were promoted to the Premier League.

McKenna Sr. told police he had nine beers that day and intervened outside a pub when his son attacked his cousin Sam just before midnight.

He says his son then turned on him and McKenna Sr.’s father, Derek, 65, had to step in. “He attacked me and his grandad had to drag him off.

Jaw Break: Mark McKenna Jr.
“I think I hit him back for hitting me, the top of his head, it was not hard. I was angry for him attacking me, there was no need for it.

“He’s got anger issues. I was pissed off at him. He spoiled it for all of us.”

Earlier McKenna Jr. reluctantly gave evidence and confirmed he had a fight in Middlesbrough on the eve of the trip that left his face swollen.

He had five or six cans of beer before the match and was angry with Sam. “He was winding me up and intimidating me, saying he was going to boot some respect into me.”

McKenna Jr. has three fights with Sam on the matchday, decking him twice and wanted to continue brawling when his father split them up.

He admitted punching his father, almost knocking him over, and “squaring up” as his dad tried to lead him away.

“I wanted him to get out of the way to get to Sam,” McKenna Jr. told the jury, admitting he was ready to strike his father again.

A passing police officer watched the confrontation and witnessed McKenna Sr. decking his son with a single blow.

He was taken to Northwick Park Hospital for treatment to a double jaw fracture.