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As others have said:awful experience, great story. Love the bit where you reveal you're a cycling instructor! One wouldn't believe the defence lawyers should be so unprepared.
Community Sentence sounds about right. A criminal record is not to be sniffed at either - he'll have to reveal that for future jobs, he'll have trouble travelling to certain countries and his insurance premiums (for everything, not just his car) will go up. The way things are going, if he gets assaulted himself he won't be able to claim to victim's compensation...
Although the incident must have been really really shocking, at least that time nobody got hurt and he came up against some determined and intelligent people. If it hadn't happened, he may have carried on and next time he could have been far more violent.
Thanks for posting the account.