A PENSIONER  has been jailed for 18 months after pleading guilty to causing grievious bodily harm to a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.

Keith Degroot, 66, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to Hells Angel Stephen Hall after the pensioner smashed Hall in the face with a walking stick for calling him a "f***ing Jew".

Degroot, who lived in sheltered housing in Leeds, became embroiled in an altercation with Hall in the Duck and Drake pub, in which the pensioner's glasses were knocked from his face by the burly biker.

Sheffield Crown Court heard how Mr Degroot then smashed the Hall in the face with his walking stick, causing serious head and facial injuries - including bleeding on the brain and a fractured cheekbone in the attack in April 2009.

Recorder Jane Rowley said: "I accept that you did not intend serious harm but that your reaction was that you were reckless as to whether harm was caused when you struck him a blow of some force with a strike to the face.

"Your offence is so serious that neither a fine nor community punishment can be imposed."

OMG ... that is terrible.    When I go into the co-op with leathers on - all the old peeps stay well aware and give me wierd looks?  Never been attacked with a walking stick yet thou lol !                                                                                                                                                                             

I wasn't aware there were angels in leeds. I thought they were all slaves.                                                                                                                                                                              

Every day's a school day BB !!!!!!!!!                                                                                                                                                                             

Was he a Hells Angel, local rags class anybody that wears a piss pot helmet and a leather cut off as a hells angel.

What ever he was he is going to get more stick of his mates......geddit

I'll get my coat
                                                                                                                                                                             

I thought that had to be in America when I started reading it!!!!! Wow  feisty pensioners in Yorkshire.... must remember that                                                                                                                                                                               

never knock a yorkshiremans pint over no matter how old he is                                                                                                                                                                             

Best not knock anything really with a Tyke,long memories!!!                                                                                                                                                                             

well maybe the racial slur was so abhorrent that hethe pensioner  felt he had no choice

was any action taken for insiting violence by  the biker /hells angel                                                                                                                                                                               

something telling me nothing happened to the angel wind, not legally anyway!