Sheffield man attacked and beaten by neighbour after asking them to move car blocking driveway, court hears
A Sheffield man was attacked and beaten by his neighbour after asking them to move a car blocking his driveway, a court heard.
The householder was left with facial bruising, bite marks on his arm and a 4cm cut to his back following the vicious onslaught on Hinde House Lane, Firth Park.
Recorder James Baird said the incident had left the victim “anxious and fearful” and was a “persistent attack”.
A prosecutor told Sheffield Crown Court how on March 23, 2025 the victim returned home to find a car parked across his driveway. He knocked on his next door neighbour’s door asking that it be moved.
When his neighbour Fabian Horvath, 29, emerged from the house he put his face “right up against (the complainant’s) forehead”, the court heard.
As a scuffle broke outr, Horvath “tried to put (the complainant) into a headlock but was unable to do so”, said the prosecutor.
“So (the complainant) put the defendant into a headlock,” she said.
The court heard after the complainant released Horvath he was seen with a phone to his ear, telling the complainant “you’ve f***** it, you’re dead”.
The dispute had already escalated with Horvath’s and the complainant’s wives arguing in the street when the complainant realised he was being “attacked from behind”, added the prosecutor.
Horvath’s nephew and co-defendant Ondrej Horvath, 22, had arrived at the scene and joined that attack, during which the complainant was swung “from side-to-side” and had his T-shirt ripped off.
After retreating to his house and while on the phone to police, the complainant heard people “banging on the front door while shouting ‘“you’ve f***** it, you’re dead tomorrow’.”
In a statement read out to court, the complainant said he had “feared for his life” at the time and had since moved house and the “extreme violence” had changed his life “forever”.
Slovakian nationals Fabian and Ondrej Horvath were both of good character with no previous convictions, the court heard.
Fabian, of Hinde House Lane, Firth Park, and Ondrej, of Avisford Drive, Parson Cross, both admitted assault with actual bodily harm.
Both were jailed for 16 months each suspended for two years with 20 rehabilitation activity days and a three-year restraining order.
Fabian was handed 200 hours of unpaid work and Ondrej was ordered to complete 150 hours.