Homeless man admits attack in court
A homeless man who punched a random bystander in the face for no reason avoided jail yesterday.
Joseph Kibble, of no fixed address, admitted causing actual bodily harm to Thomas Tyler on May 12 in High Street.
Jane Brady, defending, said the 30-year-old had become angry when an ambulance driver refused to take him to hospital and “lashed out at the first person he saw”, leaving Mr Tyler needing stitches to his lip.
Judge Peter Ross, sitting in Oxford Crown Court, sentenced Kibble to nine months in prison, suspended for two years, with two years supervision, 100 hours’ unpaid work, a requirement not to take any illegal drugs for two years, and told him to pay £250 compensation and a £100 victims’ surcharge.
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