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A group of young professionals who attacked a man on a train before celebrating with "high-fives" have been spared jail.

Frederick Doe, 25, Michael Tebbutt, 24 and Samantha Vander, 25, subjected their fellow passenger to a "volley of punches and kicks" and repeatedly stamped on his head after he asked them to keep the noise down.

They were caught on CCTV as they laughed and "high-fived" each other after the attack.

Each defendant was handed a four-month suspended sentence and 300 hours' community service by St Albans Crown Court.

The court was told how they pounced on the 38-year-old man following an alcohol-fuelled evening in London.

Detective Sergeant Karina Ghersinich, of British Transport Police, said: "Doe and Tebbutt floored the man and then assaulted him with a volley of punches and kicks. Vander joined in and brutally stamped on the victim's head and body using the stiletto heels she was wearing - laughing as she did so."

The assault continued for several minutes before another passenger came to the victim's aid and separated the group. He was then helped off the train by passengers at Ware station, before being transferred to hospital for treatment.

He suffered injuries to his face and hands, bruising to his body and swelling to the back of his neck.

Doe, of Chapmore End, Ware, Tebbutt, of Sanville Gardens, Stanstead Abbotts and Vander, of Primrose Drive, Hertford, pleaded guilty to violent disorder and assault occasioning actual bodily

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And people wonder why we dont always feel safe or believe in the justice system

Professional what? Thugs!

No Rude, they are professional wastes of fooking oxygen and should be UN-PROFESIONABLY put down!!!! Im a profesionable in my job, does that mean i would get a let off???

Totally out of order!

http://wp.mc/p17zB-2c2 soz gang dodgy link. Will fix.

Grrrr. Soz peeps! Wish i had a rubber!

They were let off because they're middle class and professionals.

Bunch of Evil Castards, i say!!

Whatever 'profession' they are in I hope the people who employ them are professional enough to realise they should not have cowardly ... like these on their payroll.

the country needs a goverment with back bone .there is no great in great britain any more the country has gone to the dogs and we have let it!!! getting off me soap box now but people like these evil little barstard need locking up instead they are put back on the streets. bring back bronson

Hope it happens to the judge that chose the sentence sometime, f'in stupid.

whats this country coming too