Shocking moment champion darts player batters neighbour with a brick

This is the moment a champion darts player battered his neighbour with a brick - in an ongoing feud over parking.Show more

Paul 'Cookie' Cook, 65, injured pensioner Stephen Leonard outside his home during a long running row.

Cook has played darts across the world including Las Vegas and appeared in The World Match Play and World Championship Qualifiers.

But Cook and his neighbour who he has known for 30 years had ''ongoing issues'' ''for a long time'', Swindon Magistrates Court heard.

Keith Ballinger, prosecuting, said that the defendant’s wife had reversed her car onto the driveway and kept her lights on.

The lights were shining into Mr Leonard’s living room – which is immediately opposite – and were dazzling him.

He ventured outside to speak to Cook’s wife about her car lights but Cook appeared and things turned heated.

The pair were shouting and swearing at each other during the dispute, which lasted a couple of minutes.

As the argument came to an end, the defendant returned to his driveway, picked up a grey paving brick and bashed it over his neighbour’s head – despite his wife screaming “Paul, don’t do it”.

The victim immediately fell to the floor, where Cook punched him in the head before being pulled to the ground by Mr Leonard, who in the end, was on top of the defendant.

As a result of the attack, Mr Leonard – who usually walks aided by a stick – suffered cuts and bruises to his head, eye, cheekbone and elbow.