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Mask Rage Man Who Hit Victim in Head With Pole for Not Wearing a Face Mask is Jailed

by Will Jones
16 March 2023 1:30 PM

A Norwich City youth football coach who hit a man in the head with a metal pole for not wearing a Covid mask has been jailed. The Mail has the story.

Conor Murphy was queuing for food at a McDonald’s in June 2021 when he became enraged by a group of four who weren’t wearing face coverings.

After becoming increasingly irate, the 29-year-old went back to his car where he found the metal pole, before returning to attack one of the men.

He has now been jailed for two years and eight months over the “disgusting” attack, having previously pleaded guilty to actual bodily harm, grievous bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon. He has since left his coaching role with Norwich.

The fracas began when Murphy was waiting to order food at the fast food restaurant at Peterborough’s Haddon Services off the A1.

He spotted a group of four people – including a 15-year-old boy – and questioned one of them about why his female friend wasn’t wearing a mask.

However, she had had a heart bypass and was exempt from rules at the time which made face coverings indoors mandatory, a court heard.

The group got their food and went to sit down but on the way out, Murphy again asked why the woman wasn’t wearing a mask.

An altercation then broke out between the man and Murphy, who pushed and shoved each other. 

The football coach returned to his car and sat there for three minutes, before finding the pole behind his driver’s seat and returning to confront the group.

He smacked the unmasked man on the right side of the head before he fell to the ground, suffering a bad cut that needed gluing.

The victim’s partner intervened and Murphy hit her on the wrist too. Onlookers tried to restrain him, but he escaped and drove off.

He was arrested a few days later after handing himself in at Thorpe Wood Police Station.

By the ‘harmful speech’ logic, does this mean we can ban anyone from promoting mask mandates on social media on the grounds that doing so might inspire lunatics to commit violence against the bare-faced? Just a thought.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: COVID-19Mask MandatesMask RageMasks

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