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This moron has had numerous convictions for violence, it says below.
So why has he not been jailed!
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Norwich wrestler spared jail after wrecking pub
DAVID BALE
Last updated: 13/03/2010
Roy Bevis
A member of a Norwich wrestling family, who wrecked a city pub and nearly killed a man by throwing a piece of tarmac at him, has walked free from court.
Roy Bevis, 29, and friend Tony Evans, 19, who both earlier pleaded guilty to affray, trashed the Heartsease pub like “a scene from the Wild West' on May 6 last year, Norwich Crown Court heard yesterday.
Bevis, of Stannard Road, Norwich, and co-defendants Sonny Pyatt, 23, and Anton Willis, 24, were also involved in a drugs fight in Norwich city centre on November 10 last year, in which one man was hit over the head with a piece of tarmac and nearly died.
But Bevis, who has numerous previous convictions for violence, walked free from court yesterday to cheers from family and friends.
William Carter, prosecuting, said pool cues were used to trash the Heartsease pub, with one regular left unconscious after being punched in the face.
He said: “It was just after 5.30pm. Evans came into the bar and said 'Who's the hardest? I'm the hardest in Heartsease'.
“Bevis was outside the pub and when he was joined by Evans, both returned to the pub, and smashed pub windows, throwing glasses and chairs.
“One regular was attacked and left unconscious. Bevis picked up a pool cue and hit a stranger in the pub on the head. The pool cue broke and narrowly missed a child. Bevis also punched another man.
“Evans hit a man with a chair and picked up and threw a chair towards the bar and threw a glass behind the bar. The pub manageress said it was like a scene from the Wild West. They left the pub pretty wrecked and caused £300 damage.”
On November 10, Mr Carter said Bevis, Willis and Pyatt were looking to buy drugs and met two men in Bank Street, off Upper King Street, in Norwich just after midnight.
Mr Carter said: “They met drug dealer, Abduramane Jalo, 22, and there was an argument over price and Pyatt said 'If you keep playing with me, I'm going to stab you'.
“Pyatt punched Mr Jalo and his friends Willis and Bevis attacked Mr Jalo and his friend Nathan Carthy.
“Bevis pleaded guilty to picking up a piece of tarmac, the size of an A4 piece of paper and four inches thick.
“Jalo was hit on the head by that and was in intensive care for three days. His nose was broken and his right eye socket fractured. His shoulder was also dislocated when he fell.”
Bevis had earlier pleaded guilty to wounding and Willis and Pyatt had admitted affray.
Bevis, who along with Pyatt and Willis has spent four months in jail on remand for the November 10 incident, was handed a 12 months suspended sentence for two years, and an 18-months community order.
Pyatt, of Mousehold Lane, Norwich, who had earlier also admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm in Canterbury on April 24, 2008 - when he punched a doorman unconscious leaving him needing 12 stitches to his face - and who was in breach of two suspended sentences, was jailed for 12 months.
Willis, of Gertrude Road, Norwich, was given an 18 months community order and ordered to do 75 hours unpaid work, while Evans, of Terrace Walk, near Norwich city centre, was given a suspended sentence of nine months for two years and must do 250 hours unpaid work.
Bevis is the son of Norwich wrestling legend Sweet Saraya who is married to fellow wrestler Rowdy 'Ricky' Knight, and members of the family and friends packed the courtroom.
As soon as Bevis' sentence was read out by Recorder Jonathan Ferris, they started clapping, drawing an angry response from Mr Ferris.
He told them: “This is not Celebrity Squares. It's not a day out for you, as there are very important matters being discussed here, so show more respect.”
John Farmer, for Bevis, said: “He accepts he was wrong. He was in drink and in a situation where he felt provoked. But the victim, Mr Jalo, had thrown the tarmac at him first, which broke his finger, and he just threw it back.”
Mr Farmer, for Pyatt, said the Canterbury incident was an instance of him losing his temper, and added: “In the November incident violence breaks out on the other side and he joins in, but not with a weapon.”
For Willis, Stephen Spence said he got involved in violence because of his friends. He said: “If not for the victim's injury, then none or all five of the people involved in the fight, would have been in the dock.”
Mr Spence, for Evans, said his client had recently spent time in jail and was determined not to return. He said: “He had been fired up by a significant consumption of alcohol.”
Recorder Ferris said Pyatt had a very poor criminal record and added: “At Canterbury Crown Court you were told that if you committed further offences of violence you would go to prison, but despite that warning, you committed affray.
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In America they have 3 strikes and your out and in goal. Think we need that implemented in other countries as well.
Gail
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I don't understand how they can keep giving him chances if he is so violent, whether in drink or not, he is a menace to society. His family are a a strange lot, I think it was his mother, the female wrestler, who went missing for a while a year or so back, and then she turned up again.
Lizx
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I'm amazed at the defence lawyers statement:
"If not for the victim's injury, then none or all five of the people involved in the fight, would have been in the dock.”
....so if it weren't for the fact that the drunk driver ran over a pedestrian - he would have got away with driving when drunk.....
Likewise, if the raped girl hadn't reported the rapist - it would have been okay?
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Maggie, you hear this kind of rubbish all the time, people being let off because they finally pleaded(?) guilty - as if it's ok to hurt someone etc as long as you don't try to deny it, even if it's plain as the nose on your face that they did the crime anyway! I'm not sure how some defence lawyers sleep at night, the crimes they defend people of doing when it's so obvious they did the crime with intent to steal, hurt someone etc etc The Defence lawyer will say there were mitigating circumstances, or they don't normally beat someone up but they happened to have got steaming drunk that day..... etc etc
Lizx
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I am really fed up of people using drink as an excuse... even on here..oh he/she wouldn't have done it/said it if they were sober...as if that makes it somehow 'ok'
There was a wee girl who came into the shop i used to manage, with her baby...she showed me the bruises all up her arms and body, she was scared to go back home to the boyfriend... he "loves me, he only hits me when he's drunk".....aarrrghhhh !
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Rose, that's sad to hear, I hope she finds the strength to leave but I doubt it from the sound of it, I expect she will put up with it until he touches the baby and then go, but it might be too late by then sadly.
Alcohol misuse has a lot to be blamed for but I think if someone is violent it's in them anyway, drunk or not.
Until the Judges learn what it's like in the real world, there will always be stupid sentences passed unfortunately, most of them have no idea! The CPS are no good either, they let cases that should be brought to court go by the wayside for the most stupid of reasons or sometimes because they have misunderstood someone's statement. It is so frustrating for the Police who have to deal with these idiots and then see all their work come to nothing when a person gets a light sentence and is free to go out and do more damage to people or property.
Lizx
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