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Man who took part in unprovoked street attack spared jail

Forty-year-old previously admitted assault and being carried in stolen vehicle

A court’s heard a Douglas man who took part in an unprovoked street attack on a teenager came off second-best after his victim threw him to the ground.

 

Forty-year-old Simon David Lomax of Tromode House appeared before magistrates at Douglas Courthouse.

 

He’d admitted two counts of assault and one of being carried in a stolen vehicle at a previous hearing.

 

Prosecution advocate Barry Swain told the hearing Lomax and another man attacked the boy on Sidney Street in Douglas on 14 August but the boy fought back.

 

Less than a fortnight later on 25 August, a man spotted Lomax and another man in his van and realised they’d stolen it – he blocked it on the New Castletown Road but the pair got out and ran off.

 

Lomax, who’d been in the passenger seat, asked a woman he knew to give him a false alibi and she reported him to police.

 

The hearing also heard a member of the public rang police after Lomax punched his girlfriend in the face as they walked along Demesne Road on 6 March.

 

Magistrates handed him a six-month jail term, suspended for two years, as well as ordering him to pay £100 towards prosecution costs and £50 compensation to the youngster he attacked.

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