A plumber has won up to £200,000 in compensation after the furious son of a householder beat him up in a row over a broken radiator.
Thomas Browne, 32, had his hand crushed by being slammed in a door and was punched twice in the face by the son, who had ‘grown frustrated and angry’ over a long-term issue with the central heating at his mother’s property in Hammersmith.
The attack left Mr Browne so traumatised that he was left ‘shaking’ and ended up being ‘violently sick’ when he returned home, Central London County Court heard.
Mr Browne told the court how he tried to
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