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Incident of 15 March 2018

On Thursday, 15th March 2018, my wife and I took our 3-year-old daughter to

school and as we came out of the block, we saw the Defendant standing

outside the main entrance to Block 109-117 Burncroft Avenue. As we walked

towards my car, the Defendant followed us swearing and shouting abuse at

us. t could not remember the Defendant’s exact words but there were lots of

swearing words like ‘fucking family, fucking bastards’ and lots of ‘bad words.

As we got in his car, the Defendant walked back towards the block. As I went

to drive out, I saw the Defendant standing by the main door to the block and

videoing me and my family with his mobile phone and swearing and shouting

abuse at us. I got out of his car, brought out my mobile phone and started to

video the Defendant who continued swearing. I stopped videoing Mr Cordell

and turned to get back inside my car but the Defendant pushed me to the

ground from behind. The Defendant sat on top of me and started to punch me

on the face and repeatedly banged my head on the ground. After a while, I

managed to push him off.

6. I then went to my car to get something to defend myself and picked a piece of

metal from my boot but I decided against using it, the Defendant rushed at me

again and punched me in the face and I fell backwards to the ground. The

Defendant then sat on my chest and started to punch me repeatedly on the

face. By this time, my wife and daughter were crying and my wife was

screaming for neighbours to help but nobody came out. My wife tried to pull

Mr Cordell off him as I was not able to defend myself but she could not. She

then grabbed the piece of metal from my boot and hit the Defendant with it as

self- defence to stop him. Some neighbours come out of their flat after a while

and the Defendant got off me and went into his flat. By then I was bleeding

profusely on my lips and forehead and both my wife and I called the police

and ambulance service.

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