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By Advertiser Reporter Aaran Draper and, left, file image of a pair of Heelys Pictures: ADVER/WILTSHIRE POLICE A CANNABIS lover who struck his elderly neighbour with a broom after complaints about his smoking has been jailed. Sending Aaran Draper to prison for more than two-and-a-half years at Swindon Crown Court yesterday, Judge Jason Taylor QC described the 31-year-old as arrogant and selfish. Last month, jurors found him guilty of grievous bodily harm after hearing that Draper had struck his 69-year-old neighbour with a broom ha...

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By Advertiser Reporter Cannabis smoker who left OAP with gash on his head is found guilty of GBH JURORS took just 90 minutes to convict a man who claimed he had struck a man more than twice his age with a broom handle in self-defence. Aaran Draper, 31, told the jury he’d swung the broom at his 69-year-old neighbour to try at get him away from their garden fence. The pensioner had thrown dog biscuits, bird seed and a piece of wood after complaining of the younger man's cannabis use.  Swindon Crown Court heard the broom left an 18c...

By Advertiser Reporter Swindon Crown Court A SMOKER accused of striking a 69-year-old with a broom handle in a dispute prompted by his cannabis use accused a barrister of believing “bulls***”.  Aaran Draper claims he acted in self-defence when he swung the broom handle at his mother’s neighbour last July. The 31-year-old denies unlawful wounding.  Yesterday, jurors at Swindon Crown Court heard that Draper was in the garden of his mother’s home in The Wyncies, Bishopstone, smoking cannabis on July 19 last year.  Opening...