A TEACHER WAS KICKED ‘LIKE A FOOTBALL’ IN AN APPAR

A TEACHER WAS KICKED ‘LIKE A FOOTBALL’ IN AN APPARENTLY
MOTIVELESS ATTACK BY TWO VICIOUS THUGS, A COURT HEARD.

SCHOOLMASTER DAVID ALLBUTT, 43, OF STEVENS WAY,
CHIGWELL, ESSEX SUFFERED A BROKEN NOSE, BROKEN CHEEKBONES, A
FRACTURED UPPER JAW AND HAD FOUR TEETH KNOCKED OUT IN THE
ATTACK.

HE SPENT ELEVEN DAYS IN HOSPITAL AFTER SURGERY TO REPAIR
A GASH TO HIS FACE AND WILL BE SCARRED FOR LIFE, SOUTHWARK CROWN
COURT HEARD.

MR ALLBUTT’S ORDEAL BEGAN AS HE PARKED HIS CAR IN
BURDETT ROAD, BOW ON HIS WAY TO A NIGHT CLUB ON JULY 5 THIS
YEAR.

PROSECUTING COUNSEL MR JOHN CROCKER TOLD THE JURY THAT
AS MR ALLBUTT’S CAR DREW UP HE NOTICED A CROWD OF PEOPLE
STANDING IN A DOORWAY.

FEARING TROUBLE, HE STAYED IN THE CAR
UNTIL THEY WALKED AWAY, THEN GOT OUT AND LOCKED THE DOORS.

BUT THE TEACHER SUDDENLY HAD A PREMONITION OF DANGER AND
AS HE FUMBLED TO UNLOCK THE CAR DOOR HE DROPPED HIS KEYS – AND
AT THAT MOMENT HIS ATTACKERS POUNCED.

COUNSEL DESCRIBED HOW WITNESSES HEARD THE MAN CRYING FOR
HELP AND SAW
HIM LYING ON THE GROUND ‘BEING KICKED AS IF HE WERE A FOOTBALL.

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MR ALLBUTT TOLD THE JURY: ‘I TURNED AROUND AND WAS AWARE
OF TWO PEOPLE COMING TOWARD ME.

I THINK THEY SAID SOMETHING TO
ME LIKE ‘OH NO YOU DON’T’ AND THE NEXT THING I KNEW I WAS HIT ON
THE HEAD.

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SHOWING THE JURY A LARGE SEMICIRCULAR SCAR ON HIS CHEEK,
HE DESCRIBED HOW ONE OF THE MEN GLASSED HIM IN THE FACE AS HE
WAS KNOCKED TO THE GROUND.

IN THE DOCK IS MARTIN UNSTEAD, 22, OF GRAFTON HOUSE,
WELLINGTON WAY, BOW, WHO DENIES CAUSING GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM
WITH INTENT.

A SECOND MAN, 22 YEAR OLD TONY BALDWIN, OF DONGOLA ROAD,
PLAISTOW, HAS PLEADED GUILTY TO THE CHARGE, THE JURY WERE TOLD.

THE COURT HEARD THAT POLICE ARRESTED THE TWO MEN,
COVERED IN BLOOD, AT NEARBY MILE END STATION SHORTLY AFTER THE
ATTACK.

THE TRIAL CONTINUES.

ENDS*