BBC presenter jailed
Wednesday 2nd September 2009, 3:45PM BST.
A BBC presenter who hit a West Midlands boy in the face with a large wooden pole has been jailed for two years.
Midlands Today reporter Ashley Blake was convicted of unlawful wounding last month.
Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court heard Blake swung a patio umbrella pole above his head, striking 17-year-old Greg Jones in the face.
The attack happened at a pub Blake then owned, The Place 2B in Sutton Coldfield.
The teenager, who had been attending an 18th birthday party at the venue, suffered facial injuries to his lip and chin.
Blake, 40, was also found guilty of intending to pervert the course of justice after throwing the pole into a neighbouring garden centre in an attempt to conceal it from police.
He was convicted at Birmingham Crown Court on August 3.
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