Kwik Fit tyre fitter admits common assault after striking co-worker with impact wrench

Samuel Broadbent tells magistrates, ‘I lost my temper and assaulted him’

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A tyre fitter from Shropshire has admitted to assaulting a former colleague while working at a Kwik Fit branch in Shrewsbury.

Samuel Broadbent got into a fight with Toby St John-Mitchell after being accused of damaging the tyre of a customer’s car.

Prosecutor Katie Price told Telford Magistrates Court that a customer had gone to Kwik Fit to get a puncture fixed. Mr St John-Mitchell went for a break, while Mr Broadbent used a screwdriver and pliers to remove a screw from the tyre.

Mrs Price said the victim challenged him over his work, saying: “I see you again, I will make you pay”, claiming that Mr Broadbent had created an additional puncture.

”The defendant was irate and took a wheel nut gun and thrust it into the victim’s face, with its battery pack hitting his chin,” Mrs Price told the court.

A fight broke out “in front of customers and other employees”, before the pair fell to the floor near the service bay.

Broadbent told the court: ”Something had been happening for a while, there were problems between him and me which the management had not answered.

“I came to move the screw from the tyre, he proceeded to accuse me of stabbing the tyre and writing the tyre off.

”I lost my temper and assaulted him.”

Presiding magistrate David Silcock told Broadbent: ”You are going to have to control your temper,” before handing him a conditional discharge for eight months and ordering him to pay his victim £100 in compensation and £135 in court costs.

Source: Shropshire Star

2 Comments

  1. No different to walking past a colleague on the floor working underneath a vehicle, saying sorry then gently kicking them.

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  2. Did the pair of them get sacked for gross misconduct ?

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