Published date: 06 January 2017 |
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A MAN has followed his brother in being jailed after a man suffered a fractured cheek and other injuries in an unprovoked street attack.
The attack outside a chip shop was captured on CCTV.
Sales representative Michael Thomas Butterfield, of Heol y Plas, Cefn Mawr, appeared for sentence at Mold Crown Court.
Judge Niclas Parry sentenced him to six months for the assault and activated five months from a previous suspended sentence.
Jailed: Michael Thomas Butterfield, left, and brother Ashley Butterfield
He received a 14-day sentence for being drunk and disorderly and resisting arrest making a total sentence of 11-and-a-half months.
Judge Parry told Michael Butterfield, 24, he had been given a chance of a suspended sentence for a nasty theft in breach of trust.
While on bail and while on a suspended sentence, he attacked a man with another.
It involved repeated punching, the victim was knocked to the floor, and suffered a fractured cheek bone.
“It is clearly time for the public to be given a rest from you,” the judge told him.
The court heard how the victim was himself a CCTV operator who was attacked as he did some Christmas shopping.
He was walking along Market Street when he heard a man shouting aggressively “do you know who I am?”
Then as he approached a chip shop in Crescent Close he saw Ashley Butterfield, whom he recognised through his work as a local CCTV operator.
He had to pass between them but as he did so Ashley Butterfield turned and bumped into him.
The victim was then set upon by both brothers, was punched repeatedly, he ended up on the floor with a fractured cheek bone and other injuries.
Michael Butterfield was on a 10-month suspended prison sentence for stealing jewellery worth £3,500 from the mother of a woman he was in a relationship with.
Barrister Myles Wilson, defending, said drink was his downfall but his client was a different man when sober.
He was remorseful for the joint assault with his brother and he had been shocked when he was shown the CCTV of the incident.
Michael Butterfield did throw punches but it was clear it was his brother who started the hostilities and threw more of the punches.
At a special Boxing Day stand-by magistrates court at Mold the defendant’s brother Ashley Philip Butterfield, of Holborn Crescent in Wrexham, who was found to have a lock knife on him, admitted a joint charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm during the incident on the night of December 23.
Ashley Butterfield, 22, was jailed for a total of 42 weeks – 26 weeks for the offences and 16 weeks from a previous suspended sentence.
Magistrates told him he appeared to thrive on, and enjoy, inflicting injury on others
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