Youth Sentenced After Attack

Brar, of St Peters Road, Southall, admitted wounding Najam Mohammed in Southall Broadway on May 11.
Prosecutor Douglas Adams said: "Both men worked at Wicks in Ealing and had a dispute two days earlier."

"Mr Mohammed was adjusting a security camera when the defendant asked why, and swore at him.
"A colleague couldn't believe he was speaking to him in that fashion and Mr Mohammed told the duty manager".

On the Sunday, Mr Mohammed was about to board a bus in Southall when he realised he had been hit on the back of his head.

He put his hand up and felt blood. He had a small laceration which was later stitched at Ealing Hospital.

Brar was arrested and told police: "I was angry with the security guard and decided to attack him if I saw him. I had seen him at the bus stop before".

James Palfrey, mitigating, said the weapon was a piece of wood but the judge did not accept that, quoting a witness who said it was something metallic.

Mr Palfrey said Brar had brought shame on himself and his family and he had a university place and a custodial sentence could wreck his career. He had not been in trouble before.

Passing sentence, Judge Richard McGregor-Johnson said: "This was a pre-meditated assault with a weapon in the street.

"After a trivial argument at work you decided to arm yourself with some sort of metallic weapon, and you did so because you were angry with this security guard and you formed the view that if you saw him you were going to attack him.

"The wider public interest is to make it clear that people who use violence in the street with a weapon, face custodial sentences to deter others from doing the same."