TWO MEN JAILED FOR ATTACK ON 71-YEAR-OLD SPORTS FAN
TWO men have been jailed for six years for throwing an elderly former BBC editor from Leeds on to a railway track.
Ray Beaty, 71, was returning from a cricket match when he was set upon at Bradford Upon Avon railway station in Wiltshire on June 28 2005.
Alexander Graham, 39, and 25-year-old Raymond Lawrence from Warminster, Wiltshire, were each jailed for six years after being found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent by a jury at Swindon Crown Court.
Mr Beaty, a life member of Gloucester Cricket County Club, was on his way home from a match between Gloucester and Warwickshire when the pair threw him on to the track and began attacking him.
Welcoming the jury's guilty verdicts Mr Beaty said: "Hundreds of people like me go to cricket matches and festivals to enjoy the sport and have a nice day out.
We shouldn't fear being attacked even if some people may have had a few drinks."
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TWO men have been jailed for six years for throwing an elderly former BBC editor from Leeds on to a railway track. Ray Beaty, 71, was returning from a cricket match when he was set upon at Bradford Upon Avon railway station in Wiltshire ...
Prison sentence
six years
TWO men have been jailed for six years for throwing an elderly former BBC editor from Leeds on to a railway track
Prison sentence
six years
Alexander Graham, 39, and 25-year-old Raymond Lawrence from Warminster, Wiltshire, were each jailed for six years after being found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent by a jury at Swindon Crown Court
