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Sacked driver gets five years for cutting brake pipes

27th November 1997
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• A man who cut the brake pipes on a truck to get even with his boss after he was sacked has been jailed For five years.

Anthony Barron cut the brake pipes of a 16-tonne tipper after he was dismissed for defying his employer's strict noalcohol policy.

Carlisle Crown Court heard Barron was sacked on the spot after Carnforth building contractor Norman Jackson spotted him leaving a pub. That evening Barron got into the compound where the firm kept its vehicles and sawed through the brake pipes of driver Paul Jackson's lorry. Judge Robert Brown said it was lucky that the driver noticed the brakes were faulty before setting off down a steep hill towards a street which was crowded with children going to school. "You must have realised at the time that not only were you putting the driver's life in danger, but that, if he had set out down that hill there would inevitably have been a serious catastrophe," said Brown. Barron pleaded not guilty to damaging the lorry with intent to endanger Jackson's life, and to a lesser charge of behaving recklessly. After the jury Found him guilty he Faced a maximum penalty of life imprisonment because, the jury heard, in legal terms the charge was almost as serious as attempted murder.


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