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DIRECTIONS ORDER

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. I 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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