Three women who enjoyed an Elvis tribute act were brutally attacked by a man afterwards. And after devastating their lives, the attacker is behind bars.
Cameron Fraser took umbrage to the females during the show at the Windsor Castle pub in Weston-super-Mare. After telling them they were being disrespectful by talking, he launched a ferocious attack on them as they left.
Fraser, 53, of Ashleigh Road in Weston-super-Mare, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault in December last year. He appeared for sentence at Bristol Crown Court today, (August 9, 2022)
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Judge Martin Picton jailed him for two years and six months. He told Fraser: "You devastated the lives of the three victims and their extended families and friends all wrapped up in the destruction you wrought that night for no reason.
"The harm that you did will live with your victims permanently in many ways. They had to cope with months of physical pain, discomfort and distress.
"It is difficult to understand how someone of previous good character should just lose it to the extent that you did. The harm you did was really serious and there are consequences, there has to be."
Nate Toms, prosecuting, said the three women enjoyed the night out with friends before Fraser accused them of being disrespectful to the act. The court heard the women felt he was glancing at them and at the end of the night he approached them and said they had been very rude, causing one woman to apologise and tell him to draw a line.
Instead of doing so, Fraser followed them to the car park and declared: "I'm going to get you". After striking one woman to her face, causing her to fall, Fraser punched a second.
Mr Toms said when a third woman tried to help her friends, Fraser grabbed the third woman's upper arm. He gripped and twisted it so violently that the humerus broke in four places before she hit the ground, and when she landed on the ground she broke her opposite wrist in two places.
'All three of us are disgusted, upset and distraught about what happened'
Fraser then grabbed the back of her hair and smashed her face into the concrete. She sustained a huge head injury, black eyes, deep cut to the bridge of the nose and upper lip.
The women gave moving impact statements in which they recounted the devastation Fraser caused. They talked of nasty injury and post-attack trauma which left them with anxiety and either less able or unable to work.
One wrote: "All three of us are disgusted, upset and distraught about what happened."
Edward Hetherington, defending, said his client was a man of previous good character who was remorseful. Mr Hetherington said: "He has never shied away from his responsibility.
"He has been asked time and time again if he thinks what he did was provoked or justified. He says no, he did wrong, 'this is my fault and must be punished for it'."
One complainant told Bristol Live: "Fraser grabbed my right upper arm and twisted it so forcefully that it shattered into four places before I hit the ground, then my left wrist broke in two places upon impact needing a metal plate fitted to stabilise it. He then grabbed my hair and bashed my face into the floor twice.
"I am glad he got sent to prison as he should feel uncomfortable as I have and continue to be. I am still unable to work. I only wish the sentence was a little longer as he will be out in one year and 3 months."
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