Nottingham Post commented Attacker handed community order for knocking out pensioner

A 29-year-old man has been handed a 12-month community order after attacking a pensioner in a park. Francis Chapman, of Ridgeway Walk, Top Valley, admitted causing actual bodily harm at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on Tuesday. The court heard how the 69-year-old victim had been walking his friend's dog while filming in Bulwell Bogs Park on June 27, last year, before Chapman accused him of being a paedophile. He then jumped over a fance and punched the victim in the side of the head,...