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11 years for teen yobs in boot attack; SENTENCING.


DRUNKEN drunk·en  
adj.
1. Delirious with or as if with strong drink; intoxicated.

2. Habitually drunk.

3. Of, involving, or occurring during intoxication: a drunken brawl.
 yobs who savagely beat a man who told them off for urinating on a parked car were yesterday jailed for a total of 11 years.

Alan Stevens, 17, Spencer Pettifog, 17, and Daniel Fawcett, 21, then kicked Gareth Avery in the head as he lay unconscious outside his home in Weston-super-Mare.

Sentencing them at Bristol crown court Bristol Crown Court is a Crown Court in Bristol, England. It is located at the Law Courts in Small Street.

An example of a case heard at this court was the animal rights activist Barry Horne, who was convicted of six charges of arson and attempted arson at Bristol Crown
, judge Michael Longman said: "This was a truly horrific attack".

The three, all of Westonsuper-Mare, earlier admitted grievous bodily harm grievous bodily harm
Noun

Criminal law serious injury caused by one person to another

Noun 1. grievous bodily harm - street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
.

Stevens and Pettifor were given three years detention and Fawcett four years and nine months in jail.

Mr Avery, 48, who needed several operations for his injuries, said yesterday: "This will effect me for life."
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Sep 18, 2008
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