Commercial Street, Norton A SHOPPER twice sprayed his ex-partner s new man with incapacitating gas in Norton town centre, York Crown Court heard. Some of the spray went into the face of the woman as she pushed a young child in a pushchair along Commercial Street, said Austin Newman, prosecuting. Adrian Goldsborough Brown, 44, told police he had got one spray from a friend who had bought it on the internet. He then made a second one using a YouTube video. The male victim suffered “excruciating pain to his eye, cheek and neck”, couldn’t see properly for a time out of one eye and was unable to do his window cleaning job for a day.
Things have eased on the injury front for the Chiefs, who were without 10 players only a few weeks ago, although they did lose midfielder Quinn Tupaea for up to eight weeks with a knee injury last weekend.
Chiefs co-captain Sam Cane ruptured a pectoral muscle against the Blues late last month and won’t feature again this year. The Blues haven’t lost any key players to season-ending injuries during the season, but did lose hooker James Parsons to concussion-enforced retirement ahead of the campaign, and it’s increasingly likely new recruit Dillon Hunt (concussion) doesn’t play this year.
York Crown Court Picture Frank Dwyer A PAEDOPHILE hunter caused a street disruption when he targeted a sex offender in Strensall.
York Crown Court heard the vigilante attacked Anthony Welburn, 36, and then called out police to stop the situation escalating when his actions led to residents coming out onto the streets. Welburn, of Strensall, pleaded guilty to downloading indecent images of children. Judge Simon Hickey said the police were hard-pressed as it was to maintain order during the pandemic. “I feel there may be people out there bent on such mischief in terms of creating other offences (of assault),” he said.
An Audi car seized by police in Selby Picture: TC David Minto POLICE seized a car in Selby. Traffic Officer David Minto was among officers out in the town yesterday (April 14) looking for drivers committing road offences as part of an ongoing operation across North Yorkshire. Speaking on Twitter he said: There’s a moral to this story. If your car is not insured, untaxed, has an expired MOT and you re disqualified from driving, then parking in the limits of the crossing was a poor decision when the traffic policeman is lurking nearby. Earlier this year The Press reported that a driver who broke TC Minto s ankle was jailed for 30 months.
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