{"id":28706,"date":"2018-03-29T17:08:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=28706"},"modified":"2018-03-29T17:08:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T16:08:48","slug":"father-sons-jailed-fight-baseball-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/03\/29\/father-sons-jailed-fight-baseball-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"Father and sons jailed after fight with a baseball bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A FATHER and his two sons have been jailed today after beating someone with a metal baseball bat. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mark Madley, 50, of Cowbridge Road West was sentenced to 19 months imprisonment, while his sons Ryan Madley, 26, also of Cowbridge Road West and Aaron Madley, 22, of no fixed address were sentenced to 14 months. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cardiff Crown Court heard the incident took place on February 19, 2017 at around 7.30pm when a car pulled up and three people got out with the engine still running. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CCTV shown to the court, showed a verbal exchange between the two younger Madleys and the three people from the car. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Father of seven, Mark Madley is seen leaving his house with something hidden in his jacket sleeve. When he reaches the group he reveals the object to be a metal baseball bat. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both groups start fighting and during the alteration each of the Madleys use the baseball bat. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The only victim to come forward, Lewis Howell, suffered injuries including swelling to the eyes and nose, grazes to the knees and arms and lumps on his head.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On CCTV, Mr Howell is seen falling to the ground twice before getting back up and running to the nearby Ely Police Station, which was 50 metres away. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mr Howell was granted a restraining order to prevent the Madleys from contacting him. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The court heard that when police arrested Mark and Aaron Madley they were met with aggression and resistance and had to be tasered. Ryan Madley handed himself in the next day. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Police found the bat used in the attack in the kitchen of Mr Madley\u2019s home with no blood on it. However, blood was found on Aaron Madley\u2019s trainers and tracksuit. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Defence lawyer for Mark Madley, Jeffrey Jones, said: \u201cHe had just lost his head.\u201d <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In sentencing, Honour Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke said Mark Madley had deliberately taken the baseball bat to the scene and purposely did not reveal it to get close to the group. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All three members of the family were found guilty of affray. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A FATHER and his two sons have been jailed today after beating someone with a metal baseball bat. Mark Madley, 50, of Cowbridge Road West was sentenced to 19 months imprisonment, while his sons Ryan Madley, 26, also of Cowbridge Road West and Aaron Madley, 22, of no fixed address were sentenced to 14 months. Cardiff Crown Court heard the incident took place on February 19, 2017 at around 7.30pm when a car pulled up and three people got out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":28709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,3],"tags":[554,558,16],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-28706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ely-caerau","category-news","tag-affray","tag-cardiff-crown-court","tag-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Father and sons jailed after fight with a baseball bat - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/03\/29\/father-sons-jailed-fight-baseball-bat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Father and sons jailed after fight with a baseball bat - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A FATHER and his two sons have been jailed today after beating someone with a metal baseball bat. 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