Dad Ends Up In Court For Slapping ‘Daughter’s Bully’ Who Squared Up To Him

A dad has been spared jail after slapping a teenage boy who he accused of bullying his daughter at a school in in Penarth, South Wales.

Nathan O’Mara, 38, confronted the boy at the school gates and claims he didn’t intend to assault him, but rather wanted to send ‘some sort of message’.

However, he saw red when the boy ‘squared up’ to him.

O’Mara denied assault, claiming he hit the boy in self-defence, but was found guilty following a trial at Newport Crown Court.

He was handed a sentence of 44 weeks imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, and given a restraining order.

Recorder Ben Blakemore said: ‘You pulled up in your car, driving unnecessarily aggressively, and approached him in order to threaten him off your daughter.

‘At that point I am not sure you planned to assault him. What changed was something you hadn’t anticipated, he stood up to you.

‘He squared up and he didn’t step backwards when you stepped forwards. Matters heightened the way matters can do when machismo kicks in.

‘You wanted to assert yourself and frighten him off. You struck him with an open hand to the face, that was unnecessary.

‘That occurred because you were raising the heat in the confrontation and trying to get your message across in a different way.’

In a victim impact statement, the schoolboy said: ‘It’s affected my life at school, since the incident I have been isolated from friends and other students spread rumours. They portrayed me to be something I’m not.’

Well, that is a pretty ironic statement from the bully. Of course, the dad went about things in the wrong way as far the law is concerned, but his daughter was being bullied at the end of the day. I’m not sure if he’d already gone to the school or the bully’s parents about it, but would they have done anything if he had?

The good news is I doubt this kid is going to be bullying his daughter anymore, and the dad will have essentially got away with it as long as he can behave himself for the next 18 months. A hero in his daughter’s eyes, no doubt.

For the time Michael B Jordan called out a red carpet interviewer for bullying him in high school, click HERE. That had to feel good.