The son of a disgraced businessman followed his father’s footsteps into court after punching a friend who joked about the family’s shame.
Tim Carron Brown, 66, once planned to launch a multi-media firm involving actor Stephen Fry but it fell apart leaving a mountain of debts. He was later jailed for two years for fraud.
Years later, on a night out with his son Bertie, the younger man’s old boarding school friend Harry Sealey made an ‘innocuous’ comment about his previous tax difficulties and his son saw red.
Young Carron Brown knocked Mr Sealey out, leaving him with a bleed on the brain.
But the 36-year-old boss of a landscaping firm – who last year was pictured in Tatler magazine at a society wedding – has been spared prison.
Appearing at Bournemouth Crown Court last week, he admitted causing grievous bodily harm without intent. Recorder Don Tait gave him a 16-month suspended sentence, ordered him to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and pay Mr Sealey £5,000 compensation.
Pictured: Bertie Carron Brown who was spared jail after admitting causing grievous bodily harm without intent at Bournemouth Crown Court in Dorset
Harry Sealey was left with a bleed on the brain after being punched by Carron Brown
Prosecutor Tom Wright said the night out in Weymouth, Dorset, in 2022 turned sour when Mr Sealey, 36, previously a pupil at £48,000-a-year Milton Abbey School in Dorset, ‘made a completely innocuous reference to Mr Carron Brown’s father about his previous problems with tax matters. The defendant took exception in an extreme way.’
Mr Sealey, a surveyor, left and then received a call from his friend, saying: ‘How dare you talk about my father like that. Don’t come back here – I will knock you the f*** out.’
Mr Sealey wanted to apologise, however, and decided to rejoin the party at a bar.
Pictured: Tim Carron Brown, who was jailed for two years for fraud, at Bournemouth Crown Court
As he arrived, Carron Brown, from Dorchester, ran out and punched him in the face. He then grabbed his victim by his T-shirt, which ripped, causing his head to hit the ground.
Father-of-two Mr Sealey, from Sherborne, had to undergo £3,000 of dental treatment, multiple hospital visits, counselling and physiotherapy, and was unable to work or drive for months.
Tim Carron Brown, whose Iostar TV production house flopped over unfulfilled promises of £30million of investment, was jailed in 2009 for a tax fiddle.