{"id":538,"date":"2023-11-10T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/?p=538"},"modified":"2023-11-10T16:06:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:06:01","slug":"2-men-sentenced-after-attacking-a-group-of-nightclub-goers-with-a-baseball-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/2023\/11\/10\/2-men-sentenced-after-attacking-a-group-of-nightclub-goers-with-a-baseball-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men sentenced after attacking a group of nightclubbers with a baseball bat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"716\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/aziz.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-539\" style=\"width:482px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/aziz.jpeg 716w, https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/aziz-300x178.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rochester witnessed a brutal assault earlier this year. In the early hours of the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> of January outside of a night club, Aiman Aziz (left) and Ayoub Omer (right) attacked three men using a baseball bat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the men sustained a fractured skull and a brain bleed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week saw the sentencing for 18-year-old Aziz as he plead guilty at Maidstone Crown Court on the 6<sup>th<\/sup> of November, he is serving four years and eight months behind bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20-year-old Omer denied involvement, however after a trial he was found guilty and sentenced to 5 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were forced to leave the venue after Aziz assaulted one of the victims inside. The pair waited outside to initiate their savage follow up attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigating officer, Detective Constable Vicki Hartland, said \u201cThe physical scars and psychological impact will no doubt remain with the victims for the rest of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rochester witnessed a brutal assault earlier this year. In the early hours of the 22nd of January outside of a night club, Aiman Aziz (left) and Ayoub Omer (right) attacked three men using a baseball bat. One of the men sustained a fractured skull and a brain bleed. This week saw the sentencing for 18-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27,44,140],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-crime","tag-medway","tag-rochester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}