Brothers who launched terrifying family feud machete attack at Walthamstow pub jailed for 48 years
| Published date | 18 April 2024 |
| Publication title | MyLondon (England) |
Apparently spurred on by Tia's call, the Brown brothers donned balaclavas and armed themselves with machetes before making their way to The Duke. CCTV footage of the attack, seen by a jury at Inner London Crown Court this February, showed the pair stopping briefly outside to speak to someone in a parked car before strolling inside.
Just as witnesses told MyLondon at the time, Tia had been seen 'yelling into her phone' before the brothers walked in, one in a North Face and one in a Trap Star jacket. Without hesitation, they made a beeline for their target who was playing a game of pool. Brandishing 20-inch knives, Brandon and Jaydon launched an attack-described by prosecutor Warwick Tatford as 'savage and ferocious' -forcing Lawrence Dyer to fend them off with a flimsy pool cue.
As the cue shattered and pool balls flew across the pub, with some punters briefly frozen to their chairs, another set of Dyers, Sanchez and Reuben, joined the melee. Lawrence appeared to be the target, and he was stabbed in the thigh. Sanchez, who was stabbed in the arm trying to protect his organs, would later tell police 'They came to stab the sht out of us and that is what they did'.
In the face of death, Reuben Dyer plunged a knife deep into the neck of Jaydon, a moment that was caught on the pub's cameras. Like the Brown brothers, Reuben was later charged with attempted murder, but it was dropped before the trial. As Mr Tatford told the jury: "Dyer’s actions were drastic but, in the dire circumstances, reasonable and necessary in defence of others."
As Lawrence slumped to the floor inside The Duke, tended to by his wife Harriet, Jaydon staggered out into the street and fled up an alleyway to nearby Turner Street and down to Shernall Mini Market. As his sister Kyra arrived, her face red with blood, Jaydon asked for a cloth then started vomiting blood of his own. As they waited for an ambulance, Brandon passed a knife to a friend and left.
Meanwhile at The Duke, paramedics arrived to find the three Dyer boys laying injured on the floor. All...
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