A young Nottingham man has been sentenced to 18 months in jail, suspended for two years, after throwing a traffic cone at a drunk man, fracturing his eye socket and leaving him unconscious. Sufyaan Rasheed, 22, claimed he panicked after the incident but Judge Michael Auty KC said his actions were reckless and could have resulted in manslaughter.
A young Nottingham man fractured a drunk man’s eye socket when he threw a traffic cone at his head and abandoned him unconscious on the floor. Nottingham Crown Court heard how the force of the impact sent Sufyaan Rasheed’s victim crashing to the ground, hitting his head and knocking him out.
“It hit his head, it knocked him out cold, left him there, got into your car and drove away. I am told you panicked and I understand that, but what would it have taken for you to telephone to get help and make sure he was alright? Instead, in effect, you abandoned him to his fate and he had sustained fractures.
CCTV played to the court showed him throwing the cones onto the tram tracks before the defendant drove past him, did a three-point turn, got out of his car and threw the cone at his head sending him to the ground.
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