Coseley teen jailed for attack on postman
A BLACK Country teenager who beat up a postman because he felt he had been “slighted” when he failed to hold a door open for him has been put behind bars for 15 months.
Judge Sybil Thomas told 19-year-old Dwayne Rochester postmen had firm instructions ordering them not to hold open doors to people because of the possible consequences.
“They are not permitted to do it, but you perceived that as a slight and you punched this man to the ground causing him to lose consciousness,” she added at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
She said it was fortunate the injuries suffered by Shahid Iqbal were not serious.
Rochester, of Bayer Street, Coseley, admitted assault causing actual bodily harm and also robbing a 15-year-old schoolboy of his mobile telephone. The boy was with friends on the Lion Farm estate in Oldbury, said prosecutor Roger Thomas, when Rochester approached him and said: “Give me your phone or I will beat you up.”
Police were quickly notified and Rochester, who has previous convictions for robbery and assault, was arrested. Michael Anning, defending, maintained it was not a deliberate attack by Rochester on the postman and stressed no weapon had been used and there had been no kicking.
