A 'goth' was jailed yesterday for kicking a 'chav' to death.
20 year old Terry Sewell, of no fixed address, was sentenced to life at Winchester Crown Court following an attack on 19-year-old Jed Sheridan after a boozy night out in Portsmouth last October.
Sewell and friends Darren Abrams and Ryan Cuthbert-Asplett were involved in an altercation with Sheridan and two of his friends in Norway Road just after midnight on October 26, 2007. Sewell and Abrams reportedly beat and kicked Sheridan (pictured) because they feared they were going to be 'viciously attacked' by him.
According to police reports, Abrams smashed a bottle over Sheridan’s head and Sewell repeatedly kicked him in the face as he lay on the ground. Sheridan, who refused medical help at the scene, died of head injuries sustained in the attack at home later that evening.
Prosecutor Timothy Mousley QC said that Sewell bragged to friends the next day that he'd kicked Sheridan in the head saying "Don't worry - it's just another chav."
"He said he was not upset for Jed Sheridan because he had a strong disliking for chavs," continued Mousley.
The court was told that co-defendant Abrams hanged himself while on remand in prison in December last year.
Jailing Sewell for life, judge Mr Justice Roderick Evans concluded:
"This was mindless, drunken violence. You and Darren Abrams had an unhealthy interest in fighting. It is the kind of stupid violence decent people see as a blight on towns and cities. I accept there was no intention to kill but there was an intention to do serious harm."
