Menacing gang of yobs beat up defenceless man – until mum takes them on and wins
A mum-of-three single-handedly took on a gang of yobs beating up a defenceless man – and won.
Police Constable Clare Larkey-Jones, 48, has now been honoured at 10 Downing Street for her heroics.
Clare was alone and off-duty, returning home from an 11-hour shift and picking up her brother and his girlfriend in Caernarfon, Wales.
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She heard a lot of shouting, told her brother to stay in the car and walked over to the noise to find a gang attacking a young man in his 20s “like a pack of wild animals“, reports North Wales Live.
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Clare explained: “They stopped when I came over but then they started again.
“I just went on auto-pilot and got hold of the ring-leader, shouted at them and pulled him off before they ran away and then called the police and ambulance.
“I just knew there was something not right going on there and I thought if that was one of my boys was getting beaten up I would like to think that someone would do the same as I did.
“I honestly didn’t think anything of it at the time. I just don’t like to see people being bullied. My husband asked me why I did it and it was because it was the right thing to do.”
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The case ended up at Caernarfon Crown Court where the trial heard that Clare grabbed gang leader Callum Lee Davies “mid punch”.
Davies was jailed for the attack and Clare’s bravery was praised by Judge Nicola Jones who said: “Thankfully, PC Clare Larkey-Jones, who was off duty that evening, with no thought for her own safety, clearly thinking only of restoring order, intervened.
“She got in the middle of all of all of these men who were behaving violently. She very clearly and robustly sent everybody on their way.”
Clare’s actions earned her and her husband, electrical engineer Gareth, a trip to London when she was nominated for a Police Federation Bravery Award.
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She now works with vulnerable victims of rape as a Sexual Offences Liaison Officer on North Wales Police’s dedicated Amethyst Team.
Before that she spent 22 years in uniform on frontline policing in Gwynedd, joining up at 25 after gaining a BA in Criminology at Bangor University.
She’s still out of uniform now on the Amethyst team where she is enjoying the new role.
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