Three attacked man 'like a pack of wild animals'

THREE people behaved "like a pack of wild animals" when they attacked a man in a block of flats, a court has heard.

- JASON EVANS

Joshua Bassett, Deborah Delaney and Jamie Davies used a claw hammer, a bottle and kicks as they beat their victim, leaving him battered and bruised and bleeding from a head wound.

Dean Pulling, prosecuting, told Swansea Crown Court that in the early hours of June 24 this year, the complainant, Abiquani Hassan, went to the defendant Delaney's home in the Griffith John Street flats in Swansea to purchase drugs.

He said Mr Hassan posted £20 through the letter box of the property and waited for his drugs to be pushed back through - “as was the usual procedure” - but nothing came.

Mr Hassan then started knocking on Delaney’s door, but got no response.

The court heard that a short time later, Delaney, in company with a man and a woman, came down to her floor from the floor above, and when she saw Mr Hassan at her door, she attacked him, using the glass bottle she was carrying to strike him to the head.