Rod Woolliss (left) Adrian Francis (centre) and Ashley Meadows (right) were sentenced at Hull Crown Court together with a 17-year-old boy
A supporter of both the EDL and the BNP from Grimsby has been jailed for his part in an horrific attack that saw a Lithuanian man shot in the face with a crossbow bolt whilst laying unconscious on the ground.
Adrian Francis was jailed for six years and two months after admitting violent disorder and attempted grievous bodily harm following the attack that haqppened on July 7th.
Francis appeared alongside Rod Woolliss also of Grimsby who pleaded guilty to attempted murder, violent disorder and attempted grievous bodily harm. He was sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Also from Grimsby, Ashley Meadows pleaded guilty to violent disorder and was sentenced to three years and six months in jail.
A 17-year-old who cannot be named for legal reasons was also sentenced to eight months detention after he pleaded guilty to violent disorder.
The victim, Rolandas Gedminas, had been repeatedly kicked to the head and stamped on by Woolliss and Francis. Woolliss then fired the crossbow bolt.
A neurosurgeon told the court that, if the tip of the bolt had been only a few millimetres deeper or higher, it would have been fatal.
The bolt was embedded in a salivary gland and it had to be surgically removed.He has since suffered nerve damage and later had problems eating and drinking.
As he left the park, Woolliss was apparently boasting about his crime, telling friends he had shot a ‘dirty foreigner’.
The sentence on Francis included a consecutive two months for breaching a 16-week suspended prison sentence for a public offence and two of assault.
