Robbers showed 'truly obnoxious thuggery' in savage pub toilet attack

PAIR HAVE BEEN JAILED FOR FIVE YEARS AFTER JEWELLERY TAKEN

- By MARTIN NAYLOR [e-mail]

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

In what a judge called “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 and then prevented him from leaving the scene of the savage attack

Now both of them have been jailed for their criminal assault.

Jailing them 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 gentleman's lavatories to take cocaine and then you went in.