‘I had to restrain him’ says Jewish man accused of warden attack

An Orthodox Jew accused of attacking a traffic warden after he ticketed a friend’s gold Lexus insisted he was lawfully restraining the man. Osher Freidman, 30, Benjamin Beigel, 25, and Yakov Nowogrodski, 26, claim they were carrying out a ‘citizen’s arrest’ on Marvin Pond and after he hit one of them with his moped. Mr Pond was attempting to leave a ticket on Mordechai Freeman’s gold Lexus that was parked on double yellow lines in Hackney, east London, on 16…