A court heard there was no apparent motive for the ‘very serious’ attack which left the victim with fractures and a collapsed lung
Kevin Lowsley admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent among other offences(Image: Humberside Police)
A defenceless man was repeatedly punched, kicked and stamped on for about 15 minutes during a horrific drug and alcohol-fuelled “moment of madness” at a house. The victim suffered rib and nose fractures as well as a collapsed lung, which had to be drained.
There was no apparent motive for the savage beating and nobody else at the house stepped in to try to help the victim, Hull Crown Court heard. Kevin Lowsley, 44, of Park Avenue, off Princes Avenue, west Hull, but recently in custody on remand, admitted causing grievous bodily harm to the man with intent on December 4.
He also admitted assaulting a police officer, causing actual bodily harm, on the same day. He admitted separate offences of assaulting a police constable as an emergency worker and the intentional strangulation of him on September 7.
Amber Hobson, prosecuting, said that Lowsley was at a house in east Hull with other people on December 4. He was agitated and was talking to himself. He repeatedly attacked another man for no apparent reason, punching, kicking and stamping on him for about 15 minutes.
Nobody intervened to help the victim and eventually Lowsley stopped the attack and left the house. The victim was seriously injured and he was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary. He suffered a collapsed right lung, which had to be drained, as well as rib and nose fractures.
Lowsley was arrested later that day but he was argumentative and difficult, the court heard. He made threats and, when an officer tried to put handcuffs on him, he bit him on his wrist, hard enough to break the skin.
During the earlier incident on September 7, police responded to a domestic incident but Lowsley was obstructive during a confrontation in Cowling, near Skipton, North Yorkshire, and he would not give his details. He threatened the officer and pinned him up against a wall by his throat before punching him several times in the head.
Lowsley continued to make threats for about half an hour before other police arrived. It was 90 minutes before he calmed down enough to be arrested. He described himself as “10 out of 10” on a scale of drunkenness and he later said that he “just flipped”.
Marc Luxford, mitigating, said that it was a drug and alcohol-fuelled “moment of madness” during the attack on the man. Lowsley later said: “I am ashamed of myself and I can’t explain my head space at the time to do that.” It was not an attempt to get back at the victim.
“It’s plainly a persistent and prolonged assault,” said Mr Luxford. “It was a very serious assault.” Lowsley had never been convicted of any violent offences before.
There had been a gap in his offending between 2014 and 2021. During that time, he did factory work in the Hull area but, in about 2021, he suffered a spinal injury and needed pain relief for it. “He fell back into a pattern of drug use,” said Mr Luxford.
“He relapsed into drugs and alcohol. He is now clean of drugs and clean of alcohol. When he is released, he has prospects of work and can be a useful member of society.”
Lowsley was jailed for five-and-a-half years.
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