AN INDIAN’S TRIP TO LONDON WAS SHATTERED WHEN TWO

AN INDIAN’S TRIP TO LONDON WAS SHATTERED WHEN TWO MEN TRIED
TO SMASH HIS HEAD THROUGH A CAR WINDSCREEN, A COURT HEARD.

INDIAN WRITER JAMSHED VAKEEL, 40, HAD COME ON A BUSINESS TRIP
TO LONDON, SOUTHWARK CROWN COURT HEARD.

BUT ON HIS WAY TO A PICCADILLY RESTAURANT ON MARCH 13 THIS
YEAR HE WAS THREATENED BY TWO DRUNKEN MEN WHO RACIALLY ABUSED
HIM BEFORE KICKING HIM IN THE BACK.

AND MINUTES LATER, VAKEEL FOUND HIMSELF HURLED ONTO THE FRONT
OF A CAR AS THE BROTHERS TRIED TO PUSH HIS HEAD THROUGH THE
WINSCREEN.

IN COURT TWENTY-EIGHT YEAR OLD STEPHEN MITTON AND BROTHER
ALLAN, 24, ADMITTED ASSAULT OCCASIONING ACTUAL BODILY HARM BUT
CLAIMED THEY HAD BECOME ENRAGED AFTER VAKEEL HAD NOT APPOLOGIZED
FOR BUMPING INTO THEM.

‘THESE TWO YOUNG MEN HAD COME FROM THE NORTH IN ORDER TO DO
SOME BUSINESS IN LONDON, SAID MR CHRISTOPHER GRAY DEFENDING.

‘THEY HAD A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT TO DRINK AND WERE WALKING
ACROSS PICCADILLY CIRCUS WHEN STEPHEN WAS JOSTLED BY MR VAKEEL.

IT IS NOT SUGGESTED IT WAS INTENTIONAL BUT CLEARLY STEPHEN WAS
ANGERED BY THE FACT THAT VAKEEL DID NOT APOLOGIZE.

‘
‘AND WHEN VAKEEL IGNORED THEIR DEMANDS FOR AN APOLOGY STEPHEN
KICKED HIM IN THE BACKSIDE.

‘BUT THE RED RAG WAS WAVED INFRONT OF THE BROTHERS WHEN VAKEEL
TOLD THEM HE WAS GOING TO INFORM THE POLICE.

‘STEPHEN STRUCK A PUNCH AT VAKEL’S FACE AND GROIN BEFORE THEY
THREW HIM OVER A CAR.

‘ HE ADDED.

BUT MR RECORDER WILLIAMS QC TOLD THE MEN,’THIS WAS A
POTENTIALLY VISCIOUS AND UNREASONED ATTACK.

‘
SELF-EMPLOYED BUILDER, STEPHEN MITTON OF TITHEBARN ROAD,
SOUTHPORT, WAS JAILED FOR 18 MONTHS AFTER HE ADMITTED TAKING THE
MAJOR ROLE IN THE ATTACK.

BROTHER ALLAN, A PLASTERER, OF QUEENSWAY, LEYLAND , LANCS
WAS JAILED FOR 12 MONTHS.

ENDS*