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Coventry man jailed for race
attack on Sikh builder
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A racist thug
who smashed a Sikh builder over the head with a lump hammer outside
Coventry's University Hospital and left him unconscious has been
jailed. Martin Baker, 18, chased his terrified victim Ranbir Hayer
with the hammer before hitting him on the arm and the back of the
head.
Just minutes
earlier he had launched an unprovoked attack on an Asian medical
student outside the hospital.
He was sent down
for 43 months for the attacks, but is only expected to serve half
that sentence.
His older
brother Jason Baker, who was also involved in the attacks, escaped
jail but was handed a suspended sentence at Coventry Crown Court.
The court heard
how the brothers binged on home-brewed wine before spotting a group
of medical students as they walked through the grounds of University
Hospital, in Walsgrave, shortly after 5pm on March 30.
Martin grabbed
one of the foreign students, called him “monkey face” and pushed him
back against the railings. Jason, aged 20, then joined in, punching
their victim and a female student who tried to intervene.
Judge Marten
Coates said: “This was a squalid attack against students who had
done a hard day’s work and who were going home through the grounds
of the hospital when they came up against two loutish drunks.”
The brothers
then walked off down Hall Lane in Walsgrave where they saw two Sikh
builders finishing a wall in a front garden. Jason racially abused
one of the builders. Moments later he returned followed by his
younger brother, who picked up a three pound lump hammer.
26
August 2009
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