TWO Bexley men have been locked up following a violent attack on a guesthouse owner over a car-parking row.

Cornelius William John Oliver, 23, of Frinsted Road in Erith and Jake Junior Stewart, 20, of Federation Road in Abbey Wood, were jailed at Dorchester Crown Court.

The pair, who both pleaded guilty to affray, attacked Michael Clark at his property in Weymouth, Dorset, in May last year.

Prosecutor Jodie Mittell told the court how Mr Clark objected to an unauthorised car in his property’s car park and went outside to take photos of the offending blue Renault Megane.

Here he encountered the vehicle’s owner Oliver, who ‘took exception’ to the guesthouse owner taking photos.

Miss Mittell said Mr Clark admitted he put his foot on the car’s bumper before it drove off.

However, moments later the two defendants returned with another male and forced their way into Mr Clark’s property.

Miss Mittell said: “He then describes who he says is Oliver with a broken broom handle waving it like a spear and jabbing it towards him.

“He describes Oliver picking up a pine table and throwing it at him.”

The men eventually left the premises after Mr Clark’s partner phoned the police and he was left with injuries to his knee, elbows and shoulder.

Oliver claimed he stopped his car outside the guesthouse to look at a map and accepted he used violence in the heated argument that followed.

Stewart admitted he threw stones at Mr Clark’s door and entered the house for ‘a few seconds’ but denied using violence.

Judge Roger Jarvis sentenced Oliver to 13 months in prison and Stewart to 34 weeks in a young offenders institute, saying he played a ‘significant but lesser role’ in the attack.

He added: “This was an utterly terrifying attack on people in the privacy of their own home.”