Lorry driver attacked with broom and metal bar in parking dispute

A WOMAN working at a food van who got into a row with a lorry driver, hit him on the head with a wooden broom.

- By TOM MACK

Her partner armed himself with a metal bar and joined in, hitting the driver on the head numerous times and leaving him covered in blood.

The lorry driver had parked up overnight to sleep in his cab on the corner of Ryder Road and Scudamore Road, in Braunstone Frith, Leicester.

He was woken up at 4.30am by the sound of Kirsty Earls opening up her friend's food truck.

Earls, 46, then banged on the driver's door and complained he had parked too close to the food truck and had also been using her bin. She then phoned her partner, Shaun Potter, 59, who turned up at the scene and started rowing with the driver and taking photographs of the truck.

The driver, fearing he was about to be attacked, tripped Potter up so he fell to the ground.

Earls grabbed the broom from the food truck, got behind the driver and struck him on the back of the head.

As she attacked, the driver fought back, causing Earls a black eye and a bruise to her collar bone.

Then Potter grabbed a metal bar and struck the driver up to three times to the head.