Shocking moment thug batters pubgoer over the head with baseball bat

Shocking moment thug batters pubgoer over the head with baseball bat so hard that it snaps in two and breaks victim’s skull is revealed as he is jailed for 32 months

• Lewis Kerby, 27, attacked his victim outside the Robin Hood pub in Southampton
• Following a row on August 19 this year, Kerby collected the weapon from his car 
• The boat maintenance worker claimed he ‘thought his friend was in danger’

This is the shocking moment a thug battered a pubgoer over the head with a baseball bat so hard that it broke the bat and his victim’s skull.

Lewis Kerby, 27, attacked his victim outside the Robin Hood pub in Southampton, Hampshire, so brutally he needed a metal plate in his head.

Following a row at the pub, Kerby collected the weapon from his car and repeatedly hit the man who had been trying to help his brother.

Lewis Kerby, 27, attacked his victim outside the Robin Hood pub in Southampton, Hampshire, so ‘brutally’ he needed a metal plate in his head

The boat maintenance worker carried on battering his victim even when he had fallen to the ground injured, Southampton Crown Court heard.

Video footage of the incident shows Kerby hitting the man with the bat until the weapon breaks.

Now, following the attack, Kerby has been jailed for 32 months.

On August 19 this year a fight between Kerby’s friend and another man spilled outside of the pub following a disagreement.

Kerby claimed he ‘genuinely thought his friend was in danger’ so retrieved the baseball bat and attacked the man, who has not been named.

Prosecutor Roderick Blain said he originally struck his victim in the shoulder before hitting him again, causing him to fall to the ground. 

Following a row at the pub, Kerby collected the weapon from his car and repeatedly hit the man who had been trying to help his brother 

Video footage of the incident shows Kerby hitting the man with the bat until the weapon breaks

Witnesses said Kerby continued swinging the bat, with one person saying they saw him hitting another man in the head while he was on the ground.

Police attended the scene and the man was later taken to Southampton General Hospital with an open skull fracture.

He was released after two days but returned to hospital one day later due to discharge from the wound.

He required blood clots to be removed as well as a metal plate and screws. He also has a ‘large’ scar on his scalp.

Mr Blain told the court the man felt ‘like he was going to die’ and ‘had a feeling he wouldn’t see his girls or his family again’.

He added that a ‘feeling of anxiousness came over him’ and that Kerby’s actions ‘went way beyond what could be justified’.

But mitigating, Khalid Missouri said Kerby is ‘still a young man’ and ‘has not been in trouble for seven years now’.

Mr Missouri said: ‘He wasn’t out for violence that night. He genuinely thought his friend was in danger.’

The boat maintenance worker carried on battering his victim even when he had fallen to the ground injured, Southampton Crown Court heard

On August 19 this year a fight between Kerby’s friend and another man spilled outside of the pub following a disagreement

Kerby claimed he ‘genuinely thought his friend was in danger’ so retrieved the baseball bat and attacked the man, who has not been named

He accepted that Kerby, of Southampton, had struck his victim four or five times.

Kerby admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent and possession of an offensive weapon, though Mr Missouri said the bat was not in the car with the aim of using it for violence.

Judge Nicholas Rowland described his actions as ‘completely over the top self-defence.’

DC Hayley Channell, who led the investigation for Hampshire Constabulary, said: ‘This was a serious incident witnessed by many people where the victim was brutally assaulted.

‘One of our priorities in Southampton is keeping people safe in and around our pubs, bars, and clubs and our licencing team works very closely with doorstaff, venues and other partners including the city council to prevent incidents like this from happening.’

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