Jake Bozarth, Dwayne Toussaint and Jake Blandford sentenced for The Nightingales estate baseball bat attack on Callum Brown

THREE men have been sentenced to almost 20 years' custody between them for their part in an estate feud triggered by drug dealing.

The hearing at Reading Crown Court on Friday, March 7, meant that all the major players in a cycle of savage violence on The Nightingales estate in Greenham, are now serving lengthy sentences.

Last week the Newbury Weekly News reported how Callum Brown, who ran a ‘county lines’ operation and was busted with a quarter kilo of cocaine, bags of heroin, doses of LSD, high potency cannabis and around £40,000 in drugs money, was sentenced to five years and four months imprisonment.

Meanwhile Jake Bozarth, 19, of Clarks Row, Oxford, Dwayne Toussaint, 19, of Ewing Way, Newbury, and Jake Blandford, 19, of Westbrook Road, Croydon, were convicted of a near-fatal attack on Brown.

Bozarth, Toussaint and Blandford, all from the estate and all aged 18 and 19, were convicted of causing Brown grievous bodily harm with intent, of violent disorder and of possessing offensive weapons in the form of baseball bats or metal poles.

Blandford and Toussaint were also convicted of a second violent disorder by attacking another man on the estate, Oliver Mace.

CCTV footage of the initial incident showed Brown fleeing behind a garage in Dickens Walk.

An audio recording played to the jury featured thuds, screaming and a loud crack before a male voice shouts in apparent jubilation: “Brownie just got done; Brownie just got done,” as another laughs maniacally.

Brown was hospitalised and maintained in a medically-induced coma while he was intubated, treated for bleeding on the brain and base of the skull, compression of the brain and a skull fracture.

He also underwent surgery to place a pressure bolt in his skull to monitor or drain excess fluid.

Bozarth and Blandford later ambushed Brown, after he gave evidence about the baseball bat attack, calling him a “snitch” and a “grass,” the court heard.

Bozarth lunged and slashed at Brown with a large knife.

The feud has even continued in prison.

At Friday’s sentencing hearing, Daniel O’Donohue, for Blandford, said his client was immature for his age and reminded the court that Brown had been “acting with impunity” on the estate, terrorising others into maintaining a code of silence in the face of police investigations.

Charles Royle, for Toussaint, said Brown had been the aggressor in much of the violence preceding the incident, and had launched a machete attack which narrowly avoided a woman’s neck.

David Dainty, for Bozarth, said his client had been a youth at the time and had endured a very difficult start in life.

Judge Kate Campbell said Brown’s drug dealing had been at the heart of the case and that he had recruited others into his web.

She described the “ringing sound of the blows” rained on Brown by the metal bats and captured on iPhone as “particularly chilling.”

Blandford was sentenced to six years in a Young Offenders Institution.

Bozarth was sentenced to six years and four months and Toussaint to six years and eight months.

All will serve two third of that in custody and the remainder on licence in the community.