Chainsaw rampage of thug in street fight
THIS is the terrifying moment a maniac wielding a roaring chainsaw confronts his neighbour as a dispute in a street descends into shocking violence.
Video shot on a mobile phone shows thug Stewart Palmer, with chainsaw in hand, trying to burst into the Barnsley home of 28-year-old mother Jess Appleby.
The brawl was the culmination of a running dispute between neighbours.
After Palmer was jailed for the attack, Miss Appleby’s partner, Dean Brown, told how the family, including her young son Archie, could have been seriously injured if he had not managed to block the doorway.
Mr Brown said: ‘He nearly got in the kitchen. If I hadn’t have kicked him and shut the door he would have cut us all up with that chainsaw.’ In a series of three videos shot by Miss Appleby and a neighbour, the confrontation escalates from an argument in her front gar-
‘If I hadn’t kicked him he would have cut us up’
den to a fist fight. Footage shows Palmer approach the window as a child shouts ‘you just spat at me’ from within.
Miss Appleby then charges out of the house through a side gate to confront him, repeatedly saying ‘get off my property’ as she tries to push him away.
Mr Brown emerges and the two men begin fighting before another woman intervenes.
Footage filmed by the next-door neighbour shows the fracas unfolding, with the two women trading blows and the men fighting again.
Another clip shows Palmer with the roaring chainsaw, charging up to the house before the video cuts out.
A CPS spokesman said: ‘Stewart Palmer was jailed on July 20 for 24 months. He was charged with affray, having an offensive weapon and criminal damage to property.’