Teen left imprint of shoe on victim's head (From This Is Cheshire)

Teen left imprint of shoe on victim's head

3:30pm Friday 30th July 2010

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A THUG who was given an anti-social behaviour order at the age of 14 has been jailed for six months after stamping on a man’s head.

Andrew Tickle, aged 19, of Halifax Close, Orford, left the imprint of his shoe on the back of his victim’s head following the attack.

His friend Jamie Kewley, aged 16, of Kendal Avenue, Orford, admitted pushing the victim and also kicking a window at the property where the attack took place.

Their victim Brian Hill had arrived at the home of Emma Stonehouse at 6.30pm on September 9 where there were already a number of people who had been drinking, a court heard.

As the evening progressed Kewley became boisterous and Mr Hill asked him to calm down, so he sat down but began to stare at Mr Hill.

Sensing tension Miss Stonehouse asked them to leave. There was then an argument over who would leave first and Kewley pushed Mr Hill, the court was told.

Tickle hit out at Mr Hill and delivered a single stamp to the back of his head.

The pair later returned to the property and Kewley kicked the front window, a prosecutor said.

Chester Crown Court heard last Thursday that Tickle had a long list of previous offences for violence starting from the age of 11.

It included a two-year anti-social behaviour order handed to him in October 2005 for two charges of battery and actual bodily harm.

Kate Henthorn, defending Tickle, said that his problems had started after he had been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and that aside from this incident he had not committed an attack for two years.

She said: “His mum says this is the most settled he has been in a long time. He has been taking new medication for his ADHD, that has calmed him down somewhat.

“He has dissassociated himself from friends he had offended with in the past.”

The court heard that Kewley only had one previous caution for possession of cannabis last year and since the offence planned to go to college and had stopped hanging around with his co-accused.

Judge Roger Dutton told the pair: “This was a completely unnecessary and violent attack. It should never have happened.”

Kewley was handed a 12-month referral order and Tickle was sentenced to six months in a young offenders institute.

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