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Spurs Crime Archive: The Cannibal Brawler

By The Boy -

From February 2016

A cannibal-style brawler with an appalling criminal record has been cleared of head-butting a man outside Tottenham’s ground after a series of CPS blunders.

Barry Ansell, 37, was said to have attacked Matt Taylor with his son, Ammi Ansell, 20, at the FA Cup tie between Spurs and Burnley on 14 January last year.

But it took nine months for police to charge the Ansells with assault and prosecutors then failed to disclose vital evidence to the defence.

Ansell snr is already serving a four-year prison sentence for smashing a man over the head with a bottle after Chelsea’s 2-0 win over Tottenham in the League Cup final last March.

The thug, who is now confined to a wheelchair after suffering a stroke, was on license at the time for stabbing a woman in a row over her dog.

He has a horrendous record for violence including biting the top of a man’s ear off during a fight outside a bar in 2005 and screaming: ‘Here, have your f—ing ear back.’

Three years earlier he held a man down on a pool table and chomped on his ear exposing cartilage because he lost a game.

He also chewed off the tip of a man’s thumb on 21 October 2001 during a fight in a kebab shop.

The Ansells were due to be tried for assault but the Crown Prosecution Service failed to submit a skeleton argument and disclose medical evidence to the defence prior to the hearing.

Defence lawyers had made a number of requests for this information, which the CPS seemingly ignored, Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court heard.

Prosecutor Kevin Christie was unable to explain the failures and after a short adjournment
District Judge Quentin Purdy dismissed the case against the Ansells.

The judge also ordered the CPS to pay all Ammi Ansell’s travel expenses.

Both men denied and were cleared of assault by beating.

Ansell snr was taken back to Pentonville Prison to serve the remainder of his four year sentence while his son, of Pittmans Field, Harlow, Essex, walked free.

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