Man Spared Jail After Headbutting Female Wetherspoons Manager In The Nose

A drunk man who headbutted the female manager at a Wetherspoons after she asked him to leave has managed to avoid jail.

Leon Wimsett, 24, was caught on film headbutting the victim, who is not being named, at The Peter Cushing pub in Whitstable, Kent:

Wimsett was convinced he had left his phone charging at the bar, despite staff telling him they don’t allow customers to do this as it’s against company policy.

After being asked to leave, he lost the plot and headbutted the female manager with zero warning.

Wimsett, of Herne Bay, Kent, admitted charges of assault and being drunk and disorderly but was given a suspended sentence and handed fines and costs totalling £739.

In a statement from the manager read to the court, she recounted: ‘At around 10:45pm, there had been a fight. Included in this group was the man who later assaulted me.

‘After being told to leave, this male returned to the pub. He appeared quite agitated. He complained his phone was on charge behind the bar, and we were keeping it from him. I explained we hadn’t done that.

‘None of what he was saying made any sense. I told him he needed to leave and that we didn’t have his phone. He kept saying he would call the police. He then headbutted me, hitting me in the nose.’

So this prat had already been in a fight at the pub on the same night, and then managed to make an argument out of nothing over his missing phone and headbutted this poor woman for no reason.

Wimsett, who lives with his parents and works as a groundskeeper, had a ‘proven history of violence’, with two previous ‘like matters’ of common assault. Shocker.

The court heard Wimsett was on cocaine as well as booze on the night of the attack, and was ‘ashamed’ by what he’d done.

Out of the £739 in costs and fines, £500 will be going to the victim. It goes without saying that he’s been banned from The Peter Cushing pub also. Surely you’ve got to ban him from every Wetherspoons in the country after that?

All in all, he’s got off very lightly indeed. Fortunately, the victim did not suffer any serious injuries, but let’s hope she’s recovered from the trauma of the whole ordeal too.

For the Wetherspoons superfan who got a massive 1.5ft tattoo inked on her belly in death metal font, click HERE. That’s not the manager, is it?