Builders spared jail for vigilante attack on innocent schoolboy

Paddington walton-on-thames

Two builders who took the law into their own hands and ambushed an innocent schoolboy after mistaking him for a petty thief have been spared jail. George Holland, 26, and Phillip Johnson, 34, beat the 14-year-old up and bundled him into a car after accusing him of breaking into a Mercedes parked on Talbot Road, Paddington, on June 21, 2016. The pair were alerted to three hooded youths attempting to gain access to the vehicle by a neighbour of the…

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