Watch as topless yob batters woman with broom handle in lawless Hanley

This is the moment a topless yob battered a woman across the head with a broom handle in a city centre street. Gary Kirkham has this week admitted assaulting the woman, on Derby Street, in Hanley, one afternoon last month following his latest appearance at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court.

Security cameras at Derby Street Pharmacy initially show Kirkham acting erratically as he dashes across the road and on to the neighbouring car park. At one point he is seen climbing on top of a car.

But he then turns violent and tussles with a woman who was making her way down the pavement. Two other people then intervene to help as the women ends up stricken on the ground and lying in a pool of blood.

Have-a-go hero Tayyib Muqeem - known as Mr T - managed to detain Kirkham until Staffordshire Police arrived on the scene.

Now Kirkham, of no fixed address, is awaiting sentence at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court on May 31. The 42-year-old has been remanded in custody after admitting charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm; having an offensive weapon, affray; and breaching his Criminal Behaviour Order.

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