‘Paralytically drunk’ marriage ceremony DJ who peed up most cancers sufferer’s leg is jailed

A ‘paralytically drunk’ marriage ceremony DJ who filmed himself urinating on a most cancers affected person in a social membership has beenjailed for the vile act.

Leigh Brookfield, 40, filmed himself amicably chatting to his sufferer Peter Barton on Boxing Day 2023 about his prostate most cancers prognosis earlier than he urinated on the again of the sufferer’s trousers. He was handed a 14 week jail sentence at this time (January 25) at at Llanelli Magistrates’ Court.

The pair have been on the urinals in Llanelli Tennis and Squash Club when Brookfield, who earlier pleaded responsible, stated “sorry to hear that bud” concerning the prognosis earlier than the horrible act. Brookfield, an everyday DJ at Llanelli venues for round 15 years, posted a video of the incident on Snapchat.

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The DJ, of Dan Y Lan in Felinfoel, was initially meant to be sentenced on Wednesday (January 24) however he modified his attorneys earlier than the listening to and couldn’t discover a substitute in time so the case was adjourned till at this time.

On Thursday, (January 25) the Judge stated Brookfield was entitled to a discount of 1 third to his sentence for coming into an early responsible plea. He was additionally ordered to pay £500 compensation, prices of £85 and a £154 surcharge.

The decide had instructed Brookfield on Wednesday: “I’ll adjourn to tomorrow but please understand I will not be adjourning it further. The advice I’m sure you’ve had is you can expect an immediate custodial sentence.”

In a Facebook put up from the night time of the assault, Mr Brookfield wrote: “It’s just something me and the boys do when we are drunk, and until watching the video back I didn’t realise that the nice gentleman next to me was going through health problems.” He later instructed WalesOnline he was “absolutely paralytically drunk” when the incident occurred.

He added: “My hand on my heart, I was not aware of what the gentleman was saying to me. I was crying watching what I did.”

The DJ stated it was meant to be his “last hurrah” ingesting session earlier than his companion provides delivery early this yr. When we requested if he had accomplished something related prior to now, he replied: “It’s something me and the boys have done over the years amongst each other.”

Asked if he had accomplished it to strangers prior to now, he stated: “We’ve been abroad and done it and the whole pub has been doing it in Benidorm, something stupid like that.

“That’s not one thing I might do to a stranger, personally. I do not know what the hell I used to be pondering, I used to be simply out of it.”

Llanelli Tennis and Squash Club said in a statement at the time it was “devastated that [its] identify has been introduced into this”.

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