A MAN was hit in the head with a fence post when an uncle and his nephew went on a drunken rampage.
Ashley Dale, 22, of Winchester Avenue, Grimsby went on to throw planks of wood at cars near the Bradley Inn, in Laceby Road, Grimsby, including one driven by a grandmother with her three-year-old grandson inside.
Dale had been out celebrating his nephew Kieran Dale's 17th birthday on April 28 when the violence flared.
At Grimsby Crown Court, Judge David Tremberg described the violence as "appalling, cowardly and vicious".
The judge told Ashley Dale: "You were older and more mature and should have acted as a calming influence, but you played a prominent role.
"This is a family pub where there were children. You were well in drink and efforts to get you to calm down and leave fuelled your desire to threaten and intimidate people."
Ashley Dale admitted wounding Mark Read and two offences of causing criminal damage to two cars.
He also admitted assault on his ex-partner in a separate incident on June 17 which put him in breach of an antisocial behaviour order.
Judge Tremberg locked him up for 32 months for the wounding offence, two months for each of the criminal damage to the cars and nine months for assaulting his ex-partner and three months for the breach of his Asbo, a total of four years.
Kieran Dale was sent to a young offenders institution for four years for wounding Mr Read.
James Byatt, prosecuting, said landlady of The Bradley Inn Julie Grant asked Ashley Dale to go outside after tempers flared inside the bar.
Mr Byatt said Ashley Dale had been drinking in the morning of his nephew's birthday and admitted he was "off his head".
Mr Read went outside the bar to support the landlady, but was attacked by the two men who armed themselves with wooden posts lying outside the bar.
Mr Read suffered a severe gash to his head which required stitches.
He also suffered bruising to his body.
Mr Byatt said Ashley Dale was seen later throwing wood at passing cars, including Deborah Smith's car, in which her three-year-old grandson was a passenger.
He also damaged Sonia Beal's Honda Civic.
Both men were later arrested.
For Kieran Dale, Craig Lowe said: "But for his drinking and his association with his uncle, he would not be before the court. It was a misplaced sense of family loyalty. He regrets it."
For Ashley Dale, Andrew Bailey said: "He accepts he started the trouble."
