A father and son's display of "mindless violence" led to a man requiring screws being inserted into his jaw. Anthony Flynn and and his dad Shaun Flynn's night "turned into a nightmare" during an attack in a Redcar pizza shop which was "clearly self-defence gone too far".

Teesside Crown Court heard that the victim was warned to leave 37-year-old paratrooper Anthony and his 64-year-old father alone, by another customer, on November 2, 2021. The victim noticed Anthony Flynn's accent and kept calling him a "West Ham supporter", in Gemini's Pizza, on Redcar High Street, the Middlesbrough court was told.

David Ward, mitigating for the Flynns, said that the man "made stabbing motions" at Anthony Flynn. "He keeps coming backwards and forwards, and he's been clearly told to stop," Mr Ward to

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