A FRIDAY NIGHT OUT WENT PAINFULLY WRONG FOR 25-YE

A FRIDAY NIGHT OUT WENT PAINFULLY WRONG FOR 25-YEAR-OLD DARREN
READY WHEN HE WAS BELTED ON THE HEAD WITH A FIRE EXTINGUISHER, A
COURT HEARD.

READY OF PORTSEA ROAD, TILBURY, WAS LEFT WITH WOUNDS NEEDING 12
STITCHES AFTER FOUR MEN POUNCED ON HIM AND THREW A FIRE EXTINGUISHER
AT HIS HEAD.

AND FRIEND ANTHONY MITCHELL, OF WICKHOY, BASILDON, ALSO SUFFERED
CUTS WHEN HE WAS HIT ON THE HEAD BY AN ASHTRAY, IT WAS ALLEGED.

AN OLD BAILEY COURT HEARD HOW THE TWO FRIENDS HAD GONE TO ‘YE OLDE
CRUTCHED FRIAR’ PUBLIC HOUSE UNDERNEATH FENCHURCH STREET STATION,ON
APRIL 19 LAST YEAR.

BUT AFTER A FEW QUITE DRINKS, READY SAW HIS FRIEND SURROUNDED BY
THREE MEN.

‘ I SAW HIM DOUBLED-UP AND I THOUGHT THERE WERE A COUPLE OF BLOKES
HITTING HIM.

‘ HE TOLD THE COURT.

‘ I RAN UP TO HELP HIM BUT I WAS HIT BY AN ASH-TRAY AND FELL TO
THE FLOOR.

‘I GOT UP AND TRIED TO GET AWAY BUT THE NEXT MOMENT
THERE WAS A FIRE EXTINGUISHER ON MY HEAD.

‘ HE ADDED.

DAVID MASSON,24, OF LUFFMAN ROAD, GROVE PARK, ONE OF THE FOUR MEN
ARRESTED AFTER THE INCIDENT, WAS ALLEGEDLY OVER HEARD SAYING,’THEY
STARTED IT SO WE FINISHED IT.

‘
MASSON ADMITTED MOVING IN TO HELP HIS FRIENDS AFTER THE FIGHT HAD
BROKEN OUT.

BLOOD STAINS ALLEGEDLY FROM MITCHELL’S WOUNDS WERE ALSO FOUND ON
THE TROUSERS OF MASSON AND FRIEND KELLY ANTOINE,26, OF LABURNUM ST,
SHOREDITCH.

FELLOW DRINKERS GARY WILLIAMS,26, OF HILLAN ROAD, CANVEY ISLAND
AND PAUL JANES, ALSO 26, OF HARTS LANE, BARKING WERE ALSO ARRESTED
AFTER THE INCIDENT.

ALL FOUR MEN DENY CHARGES OF AFFRAY, MALICIOUS WOUNDING ON READY
AND ASSAULT OCCASIONING ACTUAL BODILY HARM ON MITCHELL.

THE TRIAL CONTINUES.

ENDS*