HE was the apple of his mother's eye, but today teenage thug Thomas Crowley is starting a 12-month sentence after being part of a gang which beat an Ipswich man unconscious.
By Colin Adwent
HE was the apple of his mother's eye, but today teenage thug Thomas Crowley is starting a 12-month sentence after being part of a gang which beat an Ipswich man unconscious.
His sentence came just four months after he claimed he had mended his ways and was setting a good example to the wayward youngsters of east Ipswich.
Yesterday, magistrates at Ipswich youth court agreed to The Evening Star's request to waive the 17-year-old's right to anonymity after Crowley's sentencing.
The vicious assault he was involved in has left one of the victims, Terry Ragan, frightened to walk to the shops near his home in Rands Way.
In a statement read out to the court by prosecutor John Hardwick, Mr Ragan said: "I have suffered depression for the past 15 years. My confidence has taken a battering since the attack."
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