By
Damien Gayle
Last updated at 12:38 PM on 11th February 2012
Drinkers were forced to flee for their lives when a drug-fuelled maniac burst into their pub and lunged at them with a chainsaw just minutes after he was thrown out for smoking.
Dean Dinnen, 24, charged into The Endyke pub in Hull, armed with the petrol-driven chainsaw to exact revenge on a fellow customer who forced him to put out his cigarette.
As he marched up to the door of the pub with the chainsaw running he turned and jabbed it towards passer-by who ran to get out of his way.
And once inside the pub customers were forced to defend themselves with bar stools as Dinnen lashed out.
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Frightening: Punters ran for their lives as Dinnen stalked the pub waving the chainsaw, but the man he was looking for had already left
Drinkers were forced to defend themselves with bar stools and chairs as the maniac lunged the deadly chainsaw towards anyone that got too close to him
Drinker Adrian Pryor, suffered ruptured tendons as he desperately tried to defend himself with a bar stool.
Dinnen was only stopped after
customers managed to overpower him with chairs, bar stools and pool
cues. The man he was looking for had actually left before his return.
Prosecutor
Jharna Jobes said Dinnen was drunk at the pub and was escorted out by a
man who objected to him smoking and told him to stop.
The male took him outside and Dinnen claimed he beat him up. He then returned home to find the chainsaw.
Violent: Dinnen burst into The Endyke pub in Endike Lane, Hull, armed
with the chainsaw to exact revenge on the man who forced him to
put out his cigarette
Drug fuelled: Dinnen is pictured on the pub’s external CCTV camera’s
‘He
returned to the car park with the chainsaw,’ said Ms Jobes. ‘He had it
in front of him He was revving the chain saw up and frightening people.
‘He then entered the pub. But the man he was looking for had gone.
‘A separate fight in the pub was coming to an end in which Mr Pryor was going to the assistance of his friend.’
Dinnen
brought the pub to a standstill with customers falling over themselves
to escape as he walked around the bar revving and swinging the chainsaw.
He hit Mr Pryor, who had tried to defend himself with a barstool, with the razor sharp teeth slicing through a tendon.
Mr Pryor, a plumber, needed 21 stitches and six weeks off work to recover from the attack.
At
one point Dinnen cut the way through a fire door with the chainsaw. A
man was stood on the other side holding a beer barrel to try to stop
him leaving.
Dinnen was
eventually disarmed by a kick and then battered onto the ground by
pub-goers. He received broken ribs and a punctured lung before armed
police arrived.
Jailed: Dean Dinnen was high on drugs when he burst into a pub wielding a chainsaw in search a a man who had thrown him out for smoking
Eyewitness Adel Fletcher said: ‘I
could not believe my eyes. The saw was being swung around people were
arching their bodies to swerve away from him.
‘It was unbelievable what was happening I feared for my own safety.
Another
eyewitness, Kevin Fletcher, said: ‘I ran. I did not look back. I could
hear the chainsaw screaming behind me I got the feeling he was right
behind me.
‘I fell over on the way out and got up and ran again I thought if I had been at the back of the crowd I would be dead.’
Dinnen
of Thorgill Grove, west Hull, pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm on
Mr Pryor and affray by using threatening behaviour to cause people to
fear for their safety.
He also accepted charges of having an offensive weapon and criminal damage.
Richard Woolfall, defending, said: ‘He
went in with it primarily to scare. He was very much under the
influence of alcohol and drugs.
‘He
went back looking for the man he says took him outside and punished him
for disrespecting the smoking ban. He accepts it must have been
terrifying.’
Passing sentence at Hull Crown Court, Judge Michael Mettyear said Dinnen had a miserable record for theft, dishonesty and burglary.
‘This was a really horrendous incident. It must have been so frightening for the people there,’ the judge said.
‘The sound alone of this machine must have, and did, terrify people. I can only imagine the injuries that could have been caused.
‘This could have been much worse than then the unfortunate victim has received. What aggravates this is you were on a mixture of drugs and alcohol at the time.’
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Is this pub The Jockey off Shameless ? “He entered with the chainsaw just as another fight was coming to an end”……sounds like a lovely spot for a quiet drink !
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Three years isn’t long enough – although no doubt some people will say it’s not his fault it was the drugs and the drink…. Well, it wsa his choice to take the drugs and the drink AND to decide on vengeance with a chainsaw. As far as I am concerned lock him up, throw away the key and we’ll all be a lot safer.
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3 years…or rather 18 months for that? Another useless judge… Someone needs to sort out all these incompetent judges!
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What nice people we are sharing our lives with these days. He must have been on benefits to afford cigarettes, alcohol, drugs and petrol for his chain saw.
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That’s right, blame the drugs. More Leftist propaganda that demands we blame anyone and anything except the idiot.
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He needs HOSPITAL for a few years and needs it NOW, not a well boy.
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If he had such a bad record why was he given such a short sentence ??? When I read of some of the crimes in the UK and some of the sentences given I dispair for Britain. As an outsider looking in at a once great country I wonder where she is going. Can’t the politicians and law make it safer ??
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In the United States, the maniac would have been charged with attempted murder. Or maybe a pub patron or an off-duty police officer would have had his own weapon, a legal handgun for legal self-defense, and would have shot the maniac with a bullet or two.
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3 years? He’ll be out in 18 months. What a pathetic sentence. We need protection from people like this it should have been 10 years!
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Welcome to the UK. Anarchy and unrest will continue and there will be a repeat of the riots. People are angry, disenchanted and desperate about life and society in general . Sorry to sound depressing but it’s true.
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