Prison for pair in 'brutal' attack

TWO men have been told they will be sent to prison for their part in a shocking attack outside a Huddersfield pub last year.

Daniel Mullins, 24, of St James Way, Huddersfield, had denied being involved in a “brutal and sustained” attack on 54-year-old stroke victim Anthony Schofield, but after almost eight hours of deliberation, a jury at Bradford Crown Court yesterday found him guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

Mr Schofield, who was known as Little Tony because of his height and build, suffered potentially life-threatening head injuries after he was “frogmarched” out of Ricky’s Bar on Leeds Road last July and subjected to a severe beating.

Daniel Lockwood, 22, of Spen Valley Road, Dewsbury, and 23-year-old Jamie Wood, of Church Street, Huddersfield, admitted causing Mr Schofield grievous bodily harm with intent, but Mullins and his friend 23-year-old Gareth Garside, of Langdale Drive, Huddersfield, both denied the allegation.

The jury also found Garside guilty of causing GBH with intent by a majority of 10-1.

The shocking attack was captured on CCTV footage, but Mullins claimed that he only got involved to try to stop the violence.

Recorder Sandra Keen told both men that prison sentences were inevitable in their cases, but she granted them conditional bail so that reports could be prepared by the probation service.

The pair will be sentenced along with Lockwood and Wood on a date yet to be fixed.