Magistrates were shown mobile phone footage of an incident in a quaint village near Leeds, in which local resident Andrew Mason, 63, can be seen in front of a tree-cutting cherry-picker as Chris Makin, 65, tries to drag him by his clothes and hair. Prosecutors at Harrogate Magistrates Court on Thursday described how, before the footage begins, Makin had poked Mr Mason in the face, knocking off his glasses, and then “thrown him to the floor in a kind of headlock” in the incident in Church Fenton.... Read this story
