https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/laughing-yobs-batter-dad-after-24476792?utm_source=mirror_newsletter&utm_campaign=12at12_newsletter2&utm_medium=emailLaughing yobs batter dad after cat-calling his daughters aged 12 and 16
After the dad-of-three told them to "do one" Callum Forbes, then 17, knocked Martyn Corrin unconscious with a punch before another thug kicked him to the head.
By Lauren Wise & Graeme Murray
10:53, 7 JUL 2021
A group of thugs knocked out a dad after "jeering" at his daughters and offering them a lift. Dad-of-three Martyn Corrin was walking with his family from an 80th birthday party when teens in a silver Vauxhall began shouting "sexualised comments" at his daughters, aged 12 and 16. Mr Corrin told the group to "do one" before Callum Forbes, then 17, knocked him unconscious. Another man then kicked Mr Corrin to the head in the attack which left him with a bleed on the brain and fractures to his eye socket, reports the Liverpool Echo. Mr Corrin's daughter's attempted to protect their dad and the group of teenagers returned to the car "laughing" and one "smashed a bottle before they drove away", Liverpool crown court heard. Robert Dudley QC, prosecuting, said Mr Corrin was with his wife and two of his daughters when they were leaving the party at the Knockaloe Social Club on Brindle Road in Bromborough on October 19, 2019. Mr Dudley said: "The lads went back to the car laughing, then one of them smashed a bottle before they drove away."
The court heard Forbes had drunk eight pints of beer before the attack, but denied it was him and claimed he "didn't see any violence", forcing the family to relive the attack during a trial. Mr Corrin, who didn't remember any of the attack and woke up to his daughters screams, suffered a bleed on the brain and "several complex facial fractures" which required surgery. He also suffered headaches and fatigue and in a personal statement said he had been in "incredible pain" and was "unable to chew for weeks". Mr Dudley said he "believed he was going to die" and has required therapy as a result of the attack and his wife was diagnosed with PTSD. David Polglase, defending, said Forbes is "still only 19" and it will be his "first taste" of a custodial setting. Mr Dudley said they were walking home shortly after midnight when a silver Vauxhall pulled alongside them on Clifton Avenue. He said the males in the car were "making sexualised comments" towards Mr Corrin's daughters. One of the daughters said they had offered the girls a lift but "her mum told them that they were alright". They persisted and Mr Corrin became involved and told them to "do one", upon which some of the males got out of the car and approached him. Forbes punched Mr Corrin 'with force' and he fell to ground. Mr Dudley said his daughters tried to protect him, but another of the males kicked the victim to the area near the back of his head or neck. Forbes went to attack the dad again but another of the males told him "Come on Cal, leave it Cal".
He said Forbes' risk of reconviction was "low" as was the chance of seeing him in court again. Mr Polglase said there was "potential for growth and change" and stressed the probation service believed they would be able to work with him. Forbes, of Eastham, Birkenhead, was convicted following a trial of one count of causing grievous bodily harm. The judge, Recorder Ben Douglas-Jones, QC, sentencing, said: "You took it upon yourself to start jeering out of the window of the car in which you were travelling at his daughters."
The judge said after they were asked to stop Forbes "punched him unprovoked in the face with such force he was felled to the ground. "One of the people you were with delivered a running kick."
The judge said: "Rather than being shocked and chastened by the violence of the attack by that second person you went back in to attack further."
The judge said he noted Forbes suffered from ADHD and his "immaturity". He accepted Forbes was "willing to work" and had "completed a plastering course". Recorder Douglas-Jones said: "There is no remorse here, you continue to deny the offence."
Forbes was ordered to spend one year and six months in a young offenders institution.
