Two shocked women watched in horror from their upper windows as two violent thugs brutally kicked a helpless man to a “pulp” with powerful “football kicks” as he fell to the ground.
The disgusting kicks during the “horrible” and “incredibly bad” attack at 3.15am were so wild that they looked like drunken thugs “trying to score a goal”. One of them angrily shouted “You’re going to die” as the victim crawled on a ball on the ground and desperately tried to protect his head from repeated kicks.
A “hysterical, panicked” woman thought the helpless victim was dead and saw her motionless body being pushed under a car on the street, Hull Crown Court heard. Daniel Doy, 30, of Sharp Street, Hull, and his friend Cory Cooper, 29, of Westbourne Avenue, Hull, admitted to fighting on October 15, 2020.
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Prosecutor Nadim Bashir said Doy and Cooper attacked a man on Cranbourne Street, Hull, around 3:15 p.m. There had been a previous confrontation with another group when Doy was beaten, but the victim of the attack was later left alone when the violence continued.
The man had never been identified and never showed up to report. Checks with local hospitals did not find him either. Doy and Cooper’s stabbing attack was witnessed by two women, who woke up and looked out the windows.
Violent Daniel Doy. (Image: Humberside Police)
One of them told the court, “I saw a man on the floor. He was on the floor in a fetal position with his arms above his head. He was not moving or trying to get up.”
One of the men, who was said to be Doy, was hitting him at least four or five times on the upper body and head. “The boy was moving with force on the ground,” he said. “He just stretched and grabbed her and protected her head with her arms. Her knees were stretched and her arms were over her head.”
The second man, who is said to be Cooper, kicked him in the head area. “They were repeated stitches,” he said. “They all connected and had a physical impact on the victim. They were aimed at his head, but they would have been deflected so that his arms were on his head and face.
“One of them yelled, ‘You’re supposed to be his friend,’ or ‘He’s supposed to be your friend.’ I called the police. stitches.
Cory Cooper. (Image: Humberside Police)
“Eventually, the victim managed to get up and headed for Mayfield Street or Dover Street. He disappeared.”
Another woman said she was also awakened by the noise and looked out the window. One of the men shouted, “I’m going to get you, you fucking bitch. You’re going to die. Don’t think you’re going to get away with this.”
She said of Doy, “I was kicking this guy until I felt like he was pulp over and over again and again. He was standing on the sidewalk shouting and begging him to stop. I was shaking hands trying to get this person to stop.
“He seemed to be kicking his feet everywhere from what I saw. The main area was his side and his stomach. He was constantly ripping and ripping this poor guy aside.”
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He described them as “football kicks as if they were trying to score a goal, I guess, powerful, very powerful.” The woman added: “I was just shouting, ‘Please, Dad, stop.’ It was at least 10 minutes, possibly more. There was no stopping. I would have said a minimum of 20 stitches.”
He said one of the men shouted, “You’re going to die, fuck.” One of the men said to the other, “Come and help me finish the job.”
Cooper is believed to have said they had to leave, but the other, Doy, said, “Not until the job is done. That fucking guy is going to die.”
The woman said she called police. “I never left the window at any time,” he said. “I stayed there and described what I was seeing at the scene.”
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The victim stopped moving. “I was convinced he was dead,” she said. “He was screaming, telling the police to hurry. He was afraid the boy was dead. He was hysterical and panicked. He was saying, ‘Please come, come, come, please.’ no doubt he seemed to have stopped breathing because he was silent. “
The victim was pushed under a white car, he said. “The intention was to kill,” he said. “The boot was repeated, the boot, the boot. I can still see it happening now. I was in utter disaster that night. It was horrible. It was surprisingly bad. I never forgot.
“You have to see him to believe it, what I saw. I don’t think he did him justice. He was convinced he was dead under the white car. He was lying motionless under the white car.”
Police went to the area after calls to 999 and Doy and Cooper were identified from CCTV footage. Doy was convicted of handling stolen property and criminal damage. In July 2015, he was sentenced to 14 months in prison with suspension for injuries.
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He and Cooper received a six-month suspended prison sentence for fighting in July 2011, but Cooper ended up locked up for six months in October 2011 after serving a life sentence. Cooper was also convicted of possession of amphetamine, criminal damage and fighting.
Judge Sophie McKone told the couple that their reaction to the above problems was “completely exaggerated and totally inappropriate” and they began a “vicious and sustained joint attack” on the man, who was then alone.
“What happened before did not justify the level of violence you subjected him to,” Judge McKone said. “You both kicked him. You hit him on the upper body repeatedly.”
However, she was not sure, according to eyewitnesses, if the men had kicked the victim in the head. “This was an unpleasant attack that involved kicking the man as if, as one of the witnesses described, he was trying to score a goal while on the ground without being able to defend himself,” he said. Judge McKone.
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“It must be a very frightening and disgusting offense to anyone who sees it.” One of the women believed the victim was dead when she stopped moving. “You were both drinking at the time,” Judge McKone said.
Richard Thompson, a mitigator, said Doy and Cooper had been socializing and were walking home when “trouble came to them”. Doy’s reaction was fueled by adrenaline and alcohol and was “totally inappropriate.”
They stated that they reacted to a situation they initially faced and defended themselves. Since then, Doy had “kept his head down and changed his lifestyle” and devoted himself to his work as a supervisor for the company that operated the Hull Docks.
Charlotte Baines, representing Cooper, said there had been no further problems. Cooper was not initially involved in the problem and later joined.
“They didn’t start that,” Miss Baines said. “They probably didn’t go out on the streets that night looking for violence.” Cooper worked full time and had very young children.
Doy and Cooper were each jailed for 15 months.
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