An education support worker was involved in a drunken street brawl over parking spaces which left a man "covered in blood", a hearing has been told. Ceri Lewis, a support worker based at Beaufort Hill Primary School in Ebbw Vale, was handed a 12-month community order last year for her involvement in an incident which left a man with lacerations to his hand and fingers after being attacked with a glass at a street party.
An Education Workforce Council (EWC) hearing on Thursday, July 14, heard police received a call at around 10.28pm on September 18, 2020, from a man saying that people had been fighting in the street. When police attended one man, referred to as defendant B, said his friend had been assaulted and was "covered in blood." They then discovered another man, referred to as defendant A, with lacerations to his hand and fingers.
Presenting officer Luke Lambourne told the hearing defendant A had been approached by a man in relation to parking in the street on the night the incident occurred. He said this had turned into a heated argument followed by a physical fight in which a "glass was smashed." At Cardiff Crown Court on September 28, 2021, Lewis was convicted of using threatening or abusive words or behaviour with intent to provoke violence. She was later given a 12-month community order at a sentencing hearing on October 19 last year. It was heard Lewis had not instigated the incident, but intervened after the fight broke out between the defendants and her partner.
