Women took violent revenge on wrong man

GRIMSBY, England, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Three women were fined by a British judge for savagely beating a man they mistakenly believed had whistled at them.

Authorities said Richard Tailby, 22, was walking with friends in Grimsby, England, when one of his companions wolf-whistled at the three women, identified as Vanessa Delaney, 38, Claire Edwards, 25, and Sally Pawson, 24, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

The women mistakenly identified Tailby as the whistler and chased him to a nearby parking lot, where Edwards grabbed the man in a headlock while the other two women punched and kicked him to the ground.

"He managed to get up and run a short distance before they caught up with him and continued by punching him to his head and face," prosecutor Teresa Rae said of the May 16 incident, which left Tailby with a bruised ear and eye, a cut lip and grazing and swelling on his head.

All three women admitted to being drunk at the time of the incident.

Grimsby Magistrate Mike Corry sentenced Pawson and Edwards to 150 hours of unpaid work each, while Delaney was given a night-time curfew for three months and a supervision order for one year.

Corry also ordered each of the women to pay $160 in compensation and court costs.