A fuming brother lobbed a brick at the car of a man he believed had sold his younger sibling dodgy cannabis.

Darius Jones, 20, was fined £500 for smashing the hired Fiat Tipo’s window in Bicester two years ago.

He had faced allegations he’d threatened the supposed drug dealer with an air pistol.

However, prosecutor Jonathan Stone said the Crown was offering no evidence as the complainant had withdrawn his support for the prosecution. The man was said to ‘fear repercussions’.

Mr Stone told Oxford Crown Court the victim was with friends in a park in Bicester at around 6pm on July 10, 2019, when he saw Jones around 50m away.

Jones was walking towards where the man had parked his hired Fiat. He saw him throw a brick at the car and heard a ‘loud smashing noise’.

“The defendant then stormed over to the complainant,” the prosecutor said.

The motive for the attack was said to be Jones’ belief that his victim was selling drugs and had encouraged his younger brother to smoke cannabis. The younger sibling had an ‘extremely bad’ reaction to the drugs, the court was told.

He had committed no further offences in the two years since the altercation.

Judge Nigel Daly fined him £500 and ordered he pay £80 costs. “You smashed a window of this car quite deliberately,” he said.

Jones, of Leach Road, Bicester, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to criminal damage. A formal not guilty verdict was recorded on the air pistol charge.

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