A JEALOUS LOVER WHO VICIOUSLY ATTACKED HIS FORMER

A JEALOUS LOVER WHO VICIOUSLY ATTACKED HIS FORMER GIRLFRIEND
AND HER NEW BOYFRIEND ON THEIR FIRST DATE WAS JAILED FOR 12
MONTHS AT THE OLD BAILEY.

TERRY AKEHURST, 20, LAUNCHED THE ATTACAFTER SPLITTING UP
WITH GIRLFRIEND PHILIPPA BARKER, THE MOTHER OF HIS THREE YEAR OLD
SON.

JUST DAYS AFTER THE BREAK UP IN MARCH 1985 AKEHURST AND HIS
FRIEND DARREN ANDREWS BURST INTO A FLAT IN TILFORD ROAD,
HINDHEAD, SURREY, SAID MR ANDREW RITCHIE PROSECUTING.

AFTER RINGING THE DOORBELL THE PAIR FORCED THEIR WAY INSIDE
AND RUSHED UPSTAIRS TO CONFRONT PHILIPPA BARKER AND HER NEW
BOYFRIEND.

THE TWO MEN BOTH ARMED WITH KNIVES SAVAGELY ATTACKED THE
NEW MAN IN MISS BARKERS LIFE, PAUL HANSMAN, 18, A PANEL BEATER,
OF ROCKFIELD, HAZLEMERE, SURREY – WHO WAS ON HIS FIRST DATE.

MR HANSMAN SUFFERED A 10 CENTIMETRE GASH TO HIS NECK AND
WAS RUSHED TO HOSPITAL.

AKEHURST, 20, OF NAPPERS WOOD, FERNHURST, SUSSEX, THEN
PUSHED THE GIRL INTO A BEDROOM AND ATTACKED HER – HITTING
HER ON THE ARMS AND LEGS.

AKEHURST WAS FOUND GUILTY BY THE JURY OF CAUSING MR HANSMAN
GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM, ASSAULTING HIS GIRLFRIEND AND COMMITTING
AGGRAVATED BURGLARY IN MARCH 1985.

ANDREWS, 22, OF ARRAN ROAD, CATFORD WAS CLEARED OF
AGGRAVATED BURGLARY BUT FOUND GUILTY OF CAUSING MR HANSMAN
GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM.

JAILING AKEHURST FOR 12 MONTHS JUDGE HOLDEN SAID: ‘ANYONE
WHO HAS A MODEL KNIFE AND HITS OUT WITH IT MUST ALMOST INVARIABLY
INTEND SOME HARM.

BUT I THINK THIS WAS A BAD TIME FOR YOU
EMOTIONALLY AND THAT FOR VARIOUS REASONS YOU LOST CONTROL.

‘
HE ADDED: ‘THE ASSAULT ON YOUR GIRLFRIEND WAS NOT TO YOUR
CREDIT AND WAS A VERY COWARDLY ATTACK.

‘
THE JUDGE TOLD ANDREWS WHO WAS SENTENCED TO 6 MONTHS JAIL
SUSPENDED FOR TWO YEARS: ‘YOUR INVOLVEMENT IN THIS WAS MISGUIDED
AND STUPID.

YOU WON’T GET A SECOND CHANCE LIKE THIS FROM THE
COURTS SO MAKE USE OF IT.

‘

ENDS