Two brothers have each been jailed for six years for a brutal, unprovoked attack that left a local rugby player critically injured earlier this year.
Justin and Cesar Su'a appeared for sentencing before Judge Tony Adeane in the Napier District Court yesterday after pleading guilty to injuring with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
At about 10am on April 13 they were being driven around central Napier by an associate when the victim, a tradesman and rugby player, looked at the brothers as they sat in the car on Hastings St.
This prompted verbal abuse from those in the vehicle and, believing it was the end of the matter, the victim continued walking around the corner and on to Tennyson St.
Making his way back to a work van on foot, the victim was followed by the car and the brothers, who were 20 and 19 years old at the time, soon departed and advanced toward him; one of them with a wooden handle similar to an axe handle.