Vicious Staffordshire nightclub attackers set free by court
Three teenage men launched a 'vicious and frightening' assault on a lone reveller after he left a town nightclub, a judge heard.
The victim was walking home along after leaving nightclub Couture in Stafford, when a car pulled up, three men got out, rushed over to him and began violently attacking him.
Miss Fiona Cortese, prosecuting, told Stafford Crown Court: "He was pushed backwards and was lying on the pavement. He was punched and kicked all over his face and body." A witness also walking along the road described the assault as 'vicious and frightening – as if they really meant to hurt him'.
Two women went to help the victim, but two of the attackers continued to kick him before all of them got in to the car and drove off. Police stopped a Vauxhall Corsa on the Stafford to Newport road and arrested three suspects. Martin Lindo, aged 19, of Allerton Road, Shrewsbury, his brother Kaimar Lindo, also 19, of Crescent Road, Hadley, Telford and Ihsan Malik, also 19, of no fixed address but also from Hadley all admitted assault causing actual bodily harm.
They were each sentenced to eight months young offender custody, suspended for a year, ordered to do 100 hours unpaid community work and to pay Mr Hobbs £500 compensation.
Miss Cortese said the victim was walking home around 3.30am on June 25 last year after a night out at Couture nightspot in Stafford. He suffered bruising to his head, a cut to his lower lip and a chipped tooth.
Mr Simon Worlock, for Kaimar, said two car loads of young men had come over from Shropshire to celebrate a birthday in Stafford. They had been drinking but not to excess. It was not clear why their car had stopped, but Malik got out and there was an altercation, he said.
Mr Bernard Porter, for Malik, said: "He says there was a verbal interchange between those in the car and the complainant. He got out and there was a confrontation."
