Mark Lezemore’s actions were referred to as “beyond stupid” and “highly dangerous” by a judge.
Bournemouth Crown Court heard Mr Lezemore, 57, ended up being included with Dean Smith after the plaintiff had a spoken exchange with the offender’s partner.
This conversation associated to dog mess which had actually been left on the ground near Mr Smith’s home in Verwood.
Prosecuting, Tom Wright said the offender’s partner had actually been walking a dog when a conversation caught the plaintiff on September 4 in 2015.
Mr Wright said she disappeared to get a bag and returned with the offender to get the mess however additional “discussions” occurred.
The offender approached Mr Smith with the “fairly substantial plastic mallet” in his hand.
A video recording of a big part, however not all of the interaction, was played in court.
Sentencing judge Recorder Emma Zeb said the video revealed the 2 males “squaring up to one another and exchanging verbal threats”.
She said the video “clearly shows” the offender raise the mallet prior to Mr Smith provides the descent on.
The offender then got the plaintiff’s t-shirt and struck him in the head 4 or 5 times with the mallet, the court heard.
The judge said pictures of the Mr Smith’s head revealed a substantial quantity of blood putting down the side of his face.
Recorder Zeb said it was a “serious attack” and the offender coming to the scene with a weapon in his hand was worrying.
She informed the offender the occurrence “escalated from the most straightforward of issues around dog mess”, however included it was “relatively short-lived and isolated”.
Mr Wright checked out a declaration from Mr Smith which said he had strategies to spend the afternoon out with family taking pleasure in a roast supper however he wound up in medical facility.
The plaintiff said the occurrence, which was straight outdoors his home, had actually distressed him however he said he would step in once again if a comparable concern emerged in the future.
He explained it as a “situation that was blown out of proportion for whatever reason”.
Mr Smith said he suffered a “deep gash” to the top of his head and it took a week approximately for him to recuperate.
Lezemore, of New Lane, Milford-on-Sea, confessed illegal wounding and ownership of an offending weapon at an earlier hearing.
Mitigating, Jonathan Underhill explained his customer’s actions as a “monumentally ridiculous piece of decision making” by a person who had actually not bothered the criminal justice system because 1986 when he was an extremely boy.
“This was an entirely unnecessary encounter and confrontation that should never have happened and frankly should have been avoided,” Mr Underhill said.
He said his customer had actually specified there was more interaction with the complainant previous and after what was captured on movie.
The battle included 2 males of comparable age, the lawyer said.
Mr Underhill said: “This was an utterly stupid thing to have done on the part of Mr Lezemore.”
Recorder Zeb said it was “beyond stupid” and “highly dangerous”.
She accepted there was a degree of justification and the offender was sorry.
Lezemore, who works as a task supervisor for a highways business, was sentenced to 9 months jail time, suspended for 18 months.
He was bought to perform 80 hours of unsettled work and pay £500 settlement.
