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BRAWL OUTSIDE DARWEN PRIVATE HIRE OFFICE LEAVES CONTROLLER WITH FRACTURED SKULL
An early morning brawl outside a private hire office saw a worker left with a fractured skull. Stephen Parker, prosecuting at Preston Crown Court, said Lewis Goulden, 22, Jamshed Ahmed, 23, and Rizwan Munir, 36, were each heavily involved in the brawl on Railway Road in December 2021. Mr Parker said: “The whole thing started when staff came out into the street at about 6am after an altercation in the office. “Ahmed brandished a brush and was swinging it at people. Operations manager, Munir came out brandishing a wooden stick.” During the brawl, Goulden threw a brick at Ahmed, who was working at the base, which fractured his skull.
Judge Darren Preston said each of the men were just as much to blame as each other for their involvement, but accepted Goulden played a more signif icant role due to the injury he caused. Mitigating for Goulden, Niamh Ingham, said her client was of previous good character and he is very remorseful about his actions. She added he was not the first to brandish a weapon and he has not been in any trouble since the fight. Mitigating for Munir, Saleema Mahmood said her client was going to ‘protect Ahmed’ who is his nephew. She added he only used the weapon ‘two or three times’, but accepted he was brandishing it when not using it. Mitigating for Ahmed, Clare
Thomas said he suffered a fractured skull and was the only person to suffer a significant injury as a result of the affray. She added Ahmed was also of previous good character and he was unable to go back
to work at the family
business for six months after the incident. Judge Darren Preston called the fight an ‘extremely ugly incidence of violence’. Goulden received a 13- month sentence, suspended for 12 months, 140 hours’ unpaid work and a curfew for three months. Ahmed received a 9-month sen- tence, suspended for 12 months and 100 hours’ unpaid work. Munir received a 7-month sentence, suspended for 12 months and 100 hours of unpaid work.
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