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A father and his two sons were all jailed for a ‘disgraceful’
drunken incident outside a neighbour’s home.

Armed with fence posts Andrew Mowle, and Gary Mowle, goaded
married man Barry Willis, 35, into coming out onto the street where
they attacked him.

When plasterer Richard Mowle, 48, saw his sons had been hurt he
fetched a four foot long sword, Snaresbrook Crown Court had heard.

A jury convicted plasterer Andrew Mowle, 21, of Medora Road,
Romford, and his older brother, unemployed roofer Gary, 23, of Manor
Road, Romford, of violent disorder.

Richard Mowle, married, of Medora Road, was found guilty of
affray.

The three had denied the charges.

The jury had heard how on March 17 last year the three had been
out with some other friends to enjoy Andrew’s drunken 21st birthday
celebration at the Romside Social Club.

Mr Richard Guy, prosecuting, said that the boisterous group of
revellers came out after 11pm and in Medora Road they broke one of Mr
Willis’s windows and screamed for him to come out.

Frightened Mr Willis came out defending himself with a knife and
was beaten by the sons who were wielding fence posts that had been
ripped out of the ground.

The jury were told that some of the group who had been at the
social club joined in with the violence but they were not before the
court.

During the fracas Andrew was cut to his leg while his brother had
his shoulder slashed.

At this point the dad rushed to his house to arm himself with his
terrifying sword.

Police arrived on the scene and Richard Mowle – who was charging
and swiping with the fearsome weapon – was eventually over-powered and
arrests were made.

Ironically after a couple of hours Mr Willis was allowed to walk
out of hospital after he was treated for bruising, but the Mowle
brothers each needed stitching to their wounds.

Of the three defendants, only Richard Mowle gave evidence in
which he said he could remember little of the incident except for
seeing that his sons had been hurt.

Miss Margaret Barnes, defending Andrew Mowle, referred to the
‘rough justice’ of the case in which he received injuries to his leg
because of his ‘out of character behaviour’ on the night of his 21st
birthday.

For Gary Mowle, Mr Ahmed Lakha, said that he too was
‘suffering the consequences’ with recurring pain to a muscle
months after the incident.

Defending Richard Mowle, Mr Thomas Livingstone, explained that he
‘ran out with his sword’ after seeing his sons with ‘nasty injuries.

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‘Drink undoubtedly played a part,’ added counsel.

Passing sentence Judge Geoffrey Rucker said that from Mr Willis’s
evidence it was ‘clear to see that the Mowles had induced sheer naked
terror in him.

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Judge Rucker added there was an ‘absence of information’ from the
defendants who had claimed after the attack that they were so drunk
they could not remember a thing.

‘I think you know perfectly well what happened and what happened
was too disgraceful for words.

‘You Richard Mowle led your sons astray.

When you saw they were
injured you should have called police and not taken the law into your
hands with a sword.

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Judge Rucker jailed the sons for two years each and their father
for 18 months.

All three were of previous good character.

ENDS