‘It is never acceptable to take law into own hands’
Barrister tells court future of stables now in doubt
The Welsh Grand National-winning trainer Evan Williams has been jailed for three years for attacking a dog walker who was on his land.
Williams, 55, repeatedly struck Martin Dandridge, 72, with a hockey stick during the assault. Dandridge, from Swindon, suffered injuries including a fractured arm in the incident on Williams’s land at Llancarfan in south Wales in December 2024.
The defendant denied a charge of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, but was convicted by a unanimous jury after 90 minutes of deliberations following a trial at Cardiff crown court in March. The future of Williams’s training business is now in doubt, after his barrister, David Elias KC, told the court on Tuesday: “If he isn’t there, there is no business.”
