Two drunk soldiers from Scots Guards unit left man with a broken jaw in attack outside Fitzrovia nightclub and assaulted a woman who tried to help him
- Brooklyn Dobbie and Baillie Simeon admitted ABH on Alexander Gilles
- Simeon also admitted assaulting Isabelle Yearley, who tried to break up the fight
Two intoxicated soldiers from the Scots Guards unit left a man with a broken jaw in an attack outside of a central London nightclub, a court heard.
Brooklyn Dobbie and Baillie Simeon, both 22, attacked Alexander Gilles in a ‘disgraceful’ fight at a club in Fitzrovia in January last year, The Sun reported.
The pair admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm on Mr Gilles at Southwark Crown Court. Simeon also admitted assaulting Isabelle Yearley when she tried to break up the fight.
The soldiers, who are both based at Wellington Barracks, were given a 12-month suspended jail sentence and ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work. The pair also had to pay £500 costs.
Dobbie and Simeon, who have both been described as ‘hard-working soldiers’, were due to deploy to Oman for four months but now are facing a court martial and dishonourable discharge from the Army.
Brooklyn Dobbie (pictured) and Baillie Simeon, (not pictured) both 22, attacked Alexander Gilles in a ‘disgraceful’ fight at a club in Fitzrovia in January last year. The pair admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm on Mr Gilles at Southwark Crown Court
The attack occurred in the early hours of January 22, 2022 at Rathbone Place (pictured)
The soldiers, who are both based at Wellington Barracks, (pictured) have been described as ‘hard-working soldiers’. They were due to deploy to Oman for four months but now are facing a court-martial and dishonourable discharge from the Army
The attack occurred in the early hours of January 22 last year at a club in Rathbone Place, Fitzrovia, Met Police confirmed to MailOnline.
Southwark Crown Court Judge Peter Rook branded the assault as a ‘truly disgraceful incident’ during the pair’s sentencing.
The judge said the pair were ‘both intoxicated’ when they carried out the assault, leaving their victim with a ‘a fracture of the left mandible, the jaw’.
He added: ‘It was two to one and you were raining punches.’
An Army spokesman told the Sun that any individual who ‘falls short’ of the military branch’s high standards ‘can expect appropriate action to be taken’.
Dobbie and Simeon were both sentries with the Scots Guards, which protect Britain’s royal residences.
MailOnline has approached the Army for comment.
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