Mathew Jones has proven no regret for the connect which left his sufferer with a damaged nostril and eye socket and a gash on his face which wanted 17 stitches
A person subjected his neighbour to a brutal beating whereas different folks standing on the road “turned a blind eye”, a courtroom has heard. The injured man suffered a damaged nostril and eye socket within the assault and was bleeding closely from a gash to his brow however his Swansea Valley neighbours “did completely nothing to help him”.
Swansea Crown Court docket heard Mathew Jones has proven no regret for what he did to his 62-year-old sufferer, a person who had undergone coronary heart surgical procedure a matter of months earlier than the unprovoked assault.
Ian Wright, prosecuting, instructed the courtroom that on Might 2 final 12 months the complainant within the case took half in a pool match earlier than returning to his dwelling tackle in Penydre Street, Clydach, at round 10.15pm. He mentioned when the person received out of his automobile he was confronted by neighbours who started shouting about him blocking them in.
The courtroom heard Jones, who lived on the identical avenue, then “grew to become concerned in one thing that was not his concern” and began shouting abuse on the man “for no discernible cause”. The complainant instructed Jones what was occurring was none of this enterprise and walked away to his entrance door.
The prosecutor mentioned the person then heard a lady shouting “Math, do not” and “depart it” and mentioned when he circled he noticed the defendant dashing in the direction of him.
He mentioned Jones grabbed his sufferer by the throat and took him to the bottom earlier than repeatedly punching him to the pinnacle “with appreciable power” whereas shouting “derogatory names” at him. For the newest courtroom stories signal as much as our crime e-newsletter
The courtroom heard the defendant made off and the complainant, who was dazed and bleeding closely from his face, tried to search out his telephone to name for assist however couldn’t. The sufferer then requested neighbours who had been standing on the street for assist however “they did completely nothing to help him” and “successfully turned a blind eye to the illegal assault which passed off earlier than them”.
The prosecutor mentioned the injured man managed to make his solution to his daughter’s home and from there was taken to Morriston Hospital A&E. Medical doctors discovered he had a swollen and bruised face and was unable to open one eye correctly. An examination and CT scan confirmed he had a damaged nostril and a fractured eye socket, and had lacerations to his brow together with one which was some seven centimetres in size and which required 17 stitches to shut.
The courtroom heard Jones was arrested on Might 4 and gave a “mendacity account” to police claiming he had not been on the scene of the assault and had been at dwelling along with his accomplice.
In an announcement which was learn to the courtroom by the prosecution barrister, the sufferer mentioned he had been left feeling consistently anxious and on edge and was all the time trying over his shoulder.
He mentioned he had performed pool at consultant degree however needed to cease taking part in as a consequence of points along with his imaginative and prescient. He mentioned he had undergone a coronary heart operation 4 months earlier than the assault – one thing his neighbours would have been conscious of – and mentioned he felt “sick and disgusted” about what occurred. He added that following the assault he moved away from his dwelling of 32 years, one thing he discovered “coronary heart breaking”.
Mathew George Jones, now of Heol Philip, Alltwen, Pontardawe, had beforehand pleaded responsible on the day of trial to inflicting grievous bodily hurt when he appeared within the dock for sentencing.
The courtroom heard he’s “closely convicted” with “a variety of earlier convictions” on his document together with assault occasioning precise bodily hurt.
Andrew Evans, for Jones, mentioned it was accepted the defendant had concerned himself in a dispute that was nothing to do with him, and he mentioned what adopted was “short-lived and impulsive”.
He accepted there was “no present of any regret” on the a part of the defendant in his pre-sentence report, and he mentioned it could that Jones was precisely the form of one who probation must be working along with his problem his attitudes and deficits in pondering. The advocate added that Jones was a full-time carer for his son.
Choose Catherine Richards mentioned it was clear from all the pieces she had learn that the defendant had a “long-term dislike” of his neighbour and mentioned on the night time in query he had launched a “wholly unprovoked and violent assault” on the person.
She mentioned the complainant had been susceptible and alone whereas being abused by quite a lot of neighbours on the road.
The choose mentioned even when the sentence she was about to impose was one in every of a size that may very well be suspended – that may be a sentence of two years or much less – given the info of the case, the defendant’s antecedent historical past, and the contents of the pre-sentence report it was not a case the place it was applicable to take action.
With a ten per cent low cost for his responsible plea Jones was sentenced to 27 months in jail. He’ll serve 40 per cent of that sentence in custody earlier than being launched on licence to serve the rest locally.
The choose mentioned the 207 days the defendant has been topic to an electronically-monitored curfew will rely towards the sentence that means the time he’ll spend in custody shall be “comparatively quick”.
Jones was additionally made the topic of a five-tear restraining order banning him from contacting his vicitm.
