Man guilty of assaulting duo

THOMAS Grinter was in the Geelong when he spotted two men he believed had broken into his shed and stolen items.

The apprentice boilermaker approached the men and begun attacking them in the middle of Barwon Tce, a court was told on Wednesday.

Grinter pleaded guilty to two charges of unlawful assault and one count of tampering with a motor vehicle in the Geelong Magistrates’ Court.

Senior Constable Alex Good told the court Grinter hit one of the men around the head three times and pushed him on the ground before he started attacking the second man. The court was told Grinter then went to a vehicle and started deflating the tyres.

Grinter was later found by police at the Geelong Racecourse where he was arrested.

During an interview Grinter told police he carried out the offences because he believed the victims had been responsible for a series of burglaries at his shed.

Magistrate Peter Mellas said Grinter should not have taken things into his own hands. Grinter was sentenced to a 12-month adjourned undertaking.