Nuneaton man jailed after breaking pensioner's leg...

Victim: "That was the most frightened I have ever been. I thought he was going to waste me"



A Nuneaton man deliberately reversed into an "obviously frail man" he believed had been involved in a dispute with his partner, and then launched a vicious attack which left him with a broken leg.

Philip Evans, who had "stalked" the other man in his car before carrying out the attack, denied kicking him while he was on the ground – despite it being captured by a CCTV camera.

He had also smashed wine bottles on the floor and threatened the 65-year-old victim with the broken glass.

And following a trial of issue, a judge at Warwick Crown Court rejected Evans' version of the incident and the build-up to it as "blatant lies in an attempt to minimise what you did".

Evans, 41, of Newnham Green, Nuneaton, who had pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm, was jailed for two years and 11 months.

Jailing him, Judge Cooke told Evans: “I have read the references. They paint a picture altogether more positive than what I have been witnessing over the last couple of hours.

“But it does not alter the fact that you savagely attacked an obviously frail man in the street and left him lying on the ground with a broken femur.

“This was plainly a vulnerable victim. That must have been as plain as day to you as you watched him and pursued him. There was a significant degree of pre-mediation.

“There was a kick with heavy boots, which I find was not just an empty gesture into the air, and the brandishing of an intimidating weapon in the form of a broken bottle.”