Portsmouth teenager beat up mum's ex-partner in his own house by stamping and kicking on his head leaving him unconscious

A TEENAGE son ‘lost it’ before dishing out a ‘sustained’ beating on his mum’s former partner leaving him unconscious in his own house.
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Mason Barr, 19, narrowly avoided jail after storming over to the victim’s address before punching him in the mouth and then repeatedly kicking and stamping on the motionless man’s head with a ‘shod foot’ after he was on the ground.

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Barr, of previous good character, went round to the address on April 8 just after 10pm after a flurry of abusive messages had been exchanged between his mum and the ex-partner - with the attacker’s mum telling the man: ‘He’s coming to you, you fat ****.’

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Portsmouth Crown Court heard how the normally ‘stable’ defendant then knocked on the door before saying ‘alright mate’ and then smashing the man in the face.

A video clip from a mobile phone that captured the attack was played to the court showing Barr, of Manor Park Avenue, Copnor, kicking and stamping on his target in a frenzied attack while he was on the ground not moving.

‘He had been angered by the text messages and insults to his mum and went round to remonstrate but when he saw him he lashed out,’ prosecutor Siobhan Lindsay said.

The victim did not suffer any permanent damage but was left with cuts and bruises to his head as well as suffering psychological damage following the incident.

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‘It has left me shocked especially as it was in my own home,’ he said in a statement read out to court by the prosecutor.

‘It took place in front of my teenage daughters who are now very worried when the front door goes.

‘I am shocked at the level of violence used against me. I had a lump on my head for two months after the attack.’

The court heard how Barr, an apprentice plasterer, was deemed to be of ‘low risk’ of reoffending.

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Judge Timothy Mousley QC said Barr ‘lost it’ before telling him: ‘No matter how offensive the text messages were there is no justification to go round with that level of violence.

‘It was a sustained assault and you used a shod foot to kick and stamp on him leaving him unconscious for some time. His injuries could have been much worse.’

Despite rejecting probation’s recommendation for a community order - with the judge saying ‘it’s far too serious for that’ - judge Mousley kept Barr hanging before handing out a 12-month jail term which he suspended for 18 months.

The judge said the attack was ‘out of character’ and an isolated incident with Barr ‘immediately remorseful’.

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‘I’m satisfied you can be rehabilitated in the community and are unlikely to commit further offences,’ judge Mousley said.

Barr, who admitted a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, was also given 150 hours of unpaid work and told to complete 15 rehabilitation days.

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