Father and son deny GBH after car rammed diner
GoogleA father and son attacked a man with a machete and a metal pole after a car was driven into their family's restaurant and set alight, a trial has heard.
CCTV footage showed a Range Rover being reversed twice into the front of Lou's Diner in Newcastle, before Walter Patterson got out of the front passenger seat and set it on fire.
John Henry Sayers senior, 62, and John Henry Sayers junior, 29, of Fossway, deny causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Walter Patterson on 2 February last year.
Opening the Old Bailey trial, prosecutor Matthew Bean KC said police found the defendants holding their weapons after they chased Patterson and it was a "shocking incident".
The court heard Sayers senior struck the victim twice with a machete while his son hit him 14 times with a metal bar.
Patterson suffered injuries including deep wounds to his left forearm and broken ribs.
Sayers senior refused to drop the machete during his arrest and was tasered, the court heard.
An examination found Patterson's blood on the handle and blade of the machete as well as on the pole.
In the years leading up to the incident, the Sayers family had been subjected to various attacks, jurors were told.
The trial continues.
