Brick attack

A MAN was struck on the head by part of a brick at the Imperial pub in Wincheap on Saturday evening.

Phil Newbury, 43, of Oxford Road, was outside in the smoking area when a heavy lump of mortar was thrown over a garden wall. He was left with minor injuries and taken to hospital to be checked over. The pub landlord, Roger Thirtle, called the police after the incident because of the increasing concern of vandalism in the area.

“It is just disgusting that someone, who’s got no reason to randomly throw this lump of brick, does so without any care of who’s sitting under there,” said Mr Thirtle. “It was nothing to do with our pub and we were having a very nice night with lots of people here.”

He had only recently had a roof built over the smoking area and luckily this prevented more of the lump of brick hitting Mr Newbury on the head.

“If the roof hadn’t been there we could have had a different scenario and it could have been quite a serious injury,” added Mr Thirtle.