Rampage teenager locked up (From Tewkesbury Admag)

Rampage teenager locked up

SHIPSTON teenager Kerry Dean Bradley launched a series of drunken attacks on his girlfriend and other people during a get-together at her home.

Bradley, aged 19, of West Street, was sentenced to nine months detention after admitting a charge of affray.

A judge at Warwick Crown Court ordered that it should be consecutive to a four-month sentence imposed by magistrates last month for an earlier affray.

Neil Bannister, prosecuting, said on the evening of Sunday, May 27, Bradley was at his pregnant girlfriend, Hayley-Ann Begley's home with friends and they had been drinking all day.

Bradley and Hayley-Ann went to sit in his car but he seemed to fall asleep so she returned to the garden where she began chatting to Robert Ross-Bains.

The court heard Bradley returned and became jealous and aggressive, commenting "Isn't this cosy."

He then kicked Mr Ross-Bains in the face and pulled the chair from under him. He began to swing it around, threatening them and then turned on his girlfriend. He punched his girlfriend in the face, pulled her hair and pushed her against a wall.

He seemed to calm down but his temper flared again and he punched Hayley-Ann several times before pushing another guest, Kyrie Noyce, in the face when she tried to protect her pregnant friend.

Bradley pushed his knee into Hayley-Ann's chin, making it difficult for her to breathe. Kyrie made a second attempt to protect her friend but Bradley struck her in the back with a broom handle.

Still in a temper, he used his arm to sweep pictures and other items off the mantelpiece and threw a portable television out of the back door.

Storming upstairs, thinking Mr Ross-Bains was there, although he had left after the attack on him, he kicked open the bathroom door.

Another guest, Michael Wheeler, was in the bathroom and Bradley pushed him backwards, causing him to fall over the toilet pan and hit his head on the bath, knocking him unconscious in the final act of his rampage.

Judge Richard Bray told Bradley: "I have to sentence you for a nasty series of attacks when you were drunk at a party. I'm going to sentence you to a period of custody. I have no option."