A THUG who would get drunk with his mum and attack people has been jailed. Benjamin Norrie, 27, attacked two men who fell out with his mother, assaulted a third man outside a bar and burgled a house.
Norrie attacked one a man outside the Moderation Bar in Hull city centre. The victim had left the bar on June 16, last year to have a cigarette when Norrie, of Falkland Road, east Hull, came up behind him and struck him twice to the head.
He confronted Norrie and asked why he had hit him. Norrie punched the man again, causing him to lose consciousness. The victim had to be taken to hospital where he needed treatment to a wound on his ear.
Norrie has now pleaded guilty at Hull Crown Court to assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
The court heard on July 3, last year he wounded a man in the Sandringham Pub in Hull. Norrie and his mother were drinking in the pub.
Prosecutor Sabrina Harts- horn said: "The mother was drunk but appeared in good spirits. The victim went to leave the pub and as he did he spoke to the defendant and voiced concerns about his mother's inebriated state and to take care of her. This annoyed the defendant."
Norrie chased the man and punched him twice in the face. When the victim fell to the floor, Norrie then kicked him. The man suffered a fractured eye socket and needed stitches to his face. Norrie pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm.
Two months after this attack, Norrie assaulted his mother's partner after a night at the Moderation Bar. He assaulted the man by kicking and punching him to the ground. The victim suffered lacerations to his eyes and nose. Norrie pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm in relation to the matter.
He also committed a burglary with David Hunt, 35, where the pair of removed a metal security door from a flat in Falkland Road, east Hull, and entered the property to steal a fridge and a freezer. Hunt, of Chelmer Road, east Hull, was sentenced to nine months imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to burglary.
Norrie's barrister Paul Genney said of his client: "He was going out drinking with his mother. They got drunk together, the mother acts up and he steps in. At the moment they are estranged – which will be a comfort to society."
Recorder Anthony Hawks has jailed Norrie for four years.
He told him: "In June last year you got into a fight for reasons unknown. You obviously had far too much to drink. One of the things you must look to reflect upon is that when people engage in drunk and disorderly behaviour outside pubs it can cause death.
"You had hardly moved on from that offence when you inflicted grievous bodily harm outside another pub. You seem to have been with your mother who might well have got you into trouble. You ended up hitting a man who had caused no trouble to you."
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