Harry Bennett confronted the 70-year-old in Hastings town centre over claims of an incident involving his friends. The 20-year-old, who was drunk and had also been taking steroids, targeted Steven Murray as he walked home past Priory Meadow. Video footage showed Bennett punching him in the face, knocking him to the floor. He then rained down nine more blows as the pensioner lay prone on the floor. Then, with Mr Murray clearly unconscious, Bennett took a run-up and kicked him in the head. Mr Murray was left with blood in his hair, broken ribs, jaw and tooth damage and bruises.
A SPEEDING drug-driver ploughed into a family car and left the driver dead and passenger seriously injured. Christopher Fenton, 40, was over the limit for cannabis when he got behind the wheel of his Audi to go home to his home in Fairlight. He had also had two pints after work when he drove from Hastings back to the village. Marcus Haynes was driving with his wife Pamela and son Jeremy in a Citroen Picasso when their vehicle was struck by Fenton at Battery Hill near a junction with Coastguard Lane. It left Mr Haynes, 65, dead at the scene, and Mrs Haynes was seriously injured and spent months in hospital with broken legs.
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Kamil Nawrot, 37, had the tool with him when he was stopped at Dukes Mound, Brighton. It was just weeks after he had been jailed for burgling the Hove Royal Mail depot. But he was spared being returned to prison because he is now making good progress with the probation service. Previously, The Argus reported on how Nawrot was seen on CCTV stealing two phones, a Royal Mail jacket, £500 and a computer during a break-in in July last year. A week later, Nawrot triggered the alarm at St John the Baptist School in Whitehawk Hill Road, Brighton. He smashed his way into the primary school to use the toilet, he said.