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'It was a complete brutal onslaught…' - Motorist knocked out cold by stranger on petrol station forecourt
03.11.2023 - 06:43 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A motorist was knocked out cold during a random attack on a petrol station forecourt. Wesley Isbell launched a brutal assault on the man, a complete stranger, at a Tesco filling station in Salford.
Moments earlier, the victim had been loading his shopping into the boot of his car in an Aldi car park in Walkden when Isbell subjected him to a volley of abuse for no apparent reason. When their paths crossed again shortly after on the forecourt, the man confronted Isbell about the abuse.
Isbell, 28, then suddenly launched a vicious attack, repeatedly punching him to the head and kneeing him. The victim was knocked unconscious for about half a minute until he roused himself, Manchester Crown Court.
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“It was a complete brutal onslaught,” said sentencing judge Paul Lawton. The judge said it was ‘remarkable’ that the man has made a full recovery.
Prosecuting, David Toal told how the victim was packing his shopping into his car on May 5, 2020, when Isbell launched the abuse from a passing Ford Focus being driven by a woman. Isbell called the man a ‘c***’ and a ‘d*******’ and was ‘shouting that he would kill him’.
The man then pulled into the nearby petrol station and confronted Isbell about the unprovoked abuse. Sickening CCTV footage showed Isbell attacking the man, who tried to defend himself as the onslaught continued.
He was knocked unconscious and suffered fractures to facial bones, but is said to have made a full recovery. Police collected CCTV footage from the petrol station and an officer identified Isbell from the video.
He was not arrested until August the following year.
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