Newbury Nightingales estate horror: Jake Bozarth, Dwayne Toussaint and Jake Blandford accused of beating Callum Brown into a coma

A GROUP of armed men chased, caught and beat a housing estate rival into a coma with baseball bats.

The bloody violence erupted on The Nightingales estate in Greenham last spring, Reading Crown Court heard on Wednesday, November 6.

Alleged victim Callum Brown suffered a shattered cranium, broken hand and bleeding on the brain at the base of the skull.

He survived but had to endure invasive brain surgery and spent seven days in a medically induced coma, the jury heard.

In the dock were Jake Bozarth, Dwayne Toussaint and Jake Blandford.

Mark Seymour, opening the prosecution case, said the the mayhem did not end there – because, shortly afterwards, several men battered another victim, said to have been Oliver Mace, nearby with bats.

CCTV footage of the initial incident showed Mr Brown – who was also armed with a weapon – fleeing through the estate before he and his alleged attackers disappeared from view behind a garage in Dickens Walk.

But a graphic audio recording of the ensuing violence was played to the jury instead.

There are 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.

Mr Bozarth, Mr Toussaint and Mr Blandford, all aged 18 and 19, who live on the estate, deny causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

All three also deny violent disorder; Mr Blandford and Mr Toussaint deny a second instance of violent disorder while each defendant denies possessing offensive weapons in the form of baseball bats or metal poles.

Mr Seymour said the violence began around 6.15pm on May 8 last year.

The underlying reason for it may not be entirely apparent, he added.

However, referring to the apparent jubilation of the defendants recorded after the event, he went on: “You may think that doesn’t sound, on the face of it, like lawful self defence.”

Following the incident, he said, “the group run back up the road then briefly appear to gather in the rear garden of [an address in] Ewing Way – the home address of Mr Toussaint.”

Minutes later, added Mr Seymour, a group of men were seen chasing an associate of Mr Brown’s who the prosecution say is Oliver Mace.

CCTV footage showed the male being savagely beaten with bats while someone shouted: “Smash him up.”

Mr Seymour went on: “You won’t be hearing directly from Mr Mace but the crown say it was him because, in due course, police secured from Dean Boness, a friends of the defendants, a mobile phone.

“He had taken the liberty of videoing that assault.

“They were trying to take his legs out; they literally pummeled him with baseball bats in a vicious manner.”

Mr Toussaint was later filmed dumping two baseball bats in a neighbour’s garden in Ewing Way, the court heard.

Meanwhile a woman named Georgia Mace had tried to take a critically injured Mr Brown to hospital in her car.

But, said Mr Seymour, things took a dramatic turn for the worse on the journey as Mr Brown began to suffer fits due to brain damage.

He added: “South Central Ambulance Service was then called; he was vomiting, having seizures, making random arm movements and then lost consciousness.

“Unresponsive, he was taken by air ambulance to the John Radcliffe Hospital [in Oxford].”

There, Mr Brown was 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, the court heard.

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

Mr Seymour told jurors they would be hearing from Mr Brown himself and from witnesses including Mr Brown’s grandmother, Zoe Huntley.

The trial, expected to conclude late next week, continues.