Attackers locked up for violent attack on victim in bar toilets

STAB THREAT AFTER GEMS RIPPED OFF

- By MARTIN NAYLOR

ROBBERS attacked a man in the toilets of a Derbyshire bar, headbutting him, strangling him almost unconscious and threatening to stab him before ripping jewellery off from around his neck and wrist.

In what a judge described as "truly obnoxious thuggery" the victim was held in a choke hold until the look on his face "was one of true horror" at the hands of Lee Phillips and Calvin Peddie.

The duo and at least one other man followed the victim, took some of his cocaine from him and then prevented him from leaving the scene of the savage attack

Now both of them have received significant custodial sentences for their criminal assault.

Jailing each of the men for five years, Judge Michael Auty KC said: "This was truly obnoxious thuggery.

"On the night in question the victim had been out with friends first visiting the White Lion public house and then went on to Chalkies Bar, both in Long Eaton, where, it seems, he was something of a regular.

"He went into the gentlemen's lavatories to take cocaine and then you went in.