Boxer attacked his brother with coffee mug
AN amateur boxer hospitalised his brother after striking him in the head with a mug over an argument about steroid use, a court heard.
Qaasim Pervaiz grabbed the coffee mug from a sitting room table at their family home on Norfolk Grove in Accrington and struck Azeem Pervaiz, leaving him bleeding from the face and head and in need of stitches.
After the 19-year-old was arrested he then made ‘threatening or menacing’ calls to both his mum and his brother saying he was ‘going to f*** up or chop up his brother’.
Pervaiz, of Rawson Avenue, Accrington, pleaded guilty to ABH and two counts of sending menacing phone calls and was ordered to complete 120 hours’ unpaid work and pay £250 costs. Peter Barr, prosecuting, told the court how the incident happened at around 7.45am on April 26 this year after Azeem Pervaiz came downstairs to find his brother and mother in the sitting room.
He said: “It’s the Crown’s position that the mother was, in the words of the brother, ‘giving a lecture’ to this defendant about his smoking weed and taking steroids. His brother then accepted that he joined in the conversation, at which stage the defendant turned to him and said ‘why are you getting involved?’
“The situation then esca- lated. The defendant picked up a coffee mug that was sitting on a table in the sitting room. He was described as raging and shouting and then struck his brother to the face and the head. The photos certainly show a very bloodied face and a lot of blood coming from a laceration to the back of the head.”
Mr Barr said the victim was taken to hospital for treatment and needed four sutures in his head.
The prosecutor said that after his arrest Pervaiz then sent ‘threatening or menacing calls’ to his mother and brother ‘with words to the effect that he’s ‘going to f*** up his brother or chop up his brother.’ When asked about the matters in interview he denied the assault and said he was wearing a ring at the time and ‘maybe it was the ring that caused injury to his brother’.
Mr Barr said Pervaiz accepted making the phone calls, saying that he was ‘frustrated, angry and agitated by what had happened’.