VIDEO: Chainsaw-wielding Dean Dinnen storms into Hull's Endyke pub

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VIDEO footage shows the terrifying moment a man burst into a north Hull pub and attacked drinkers with a chainsaw.

Dean Dinnen, 24, stormed into The Endyke pub, in Endike Lane, with the petrol-powered saw, after he was earlier asked to leave because he would not put out his cigarette.

  1. Dean Dinnen runs amok with a chainsaw

    NIGHTMARE: CCTV captured Dean Dinnen threatening customers with a chainsaw in The Endyke pub.

  2. Dean Dinnen

    Dean Dinnen

Dinnen, who was drunk and on drugs, chased customers around the pub and sliced one man's arm.

Some of the customers armed themselves with chairs and tables for protection and forced him outside.

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Eventually, they managed to disarm Dinnen outside by throwing furniture and beer barrels at him.

Adrian Pryor, 32, was struck with the chainsaw as he tried to help his friend get out of the way.

The blade cut through the skin and muscle of his arm and he had to undergo surgery at Castle Hill Hospital.

In a victim personal statement read to Hull Crown Court, plumber Mr Pryor, said: "I had to undergo an operation under anaesthetic to repair my tendons and received 21 stitches.

"I had to have a splint in my arm, which was extremely uncomfortable and painful, and was off work for six weeks.

"I feel this will be with me for the rest of my life."

Dinnen has been jailed for three years after pleading guilty to causing grievous bodily harm, possessing an offensive weapon, damaging property and affray.

The Honorary Recorder of Hull and the East Riding, Judge Michael Mettyear, told Dinnen: "This was a really horrendous incident.

"It must have been so, so frightening for people.

"The sound alone of one of these machines in that sort of space would terrify people and it did terrify people.

"Imagine the sort of injuries that could have been caused.

"It could have been much, much worse than it was for your unfortunate victim."

The drama unfolded on August 5 last year.

Dinnen lit a cigarette inside the bar and was escorted off the premises after he refused to put it out.

He claimed he was attacked outside and went back to his home in Thorgill Grove, west Hull.

He returned brandishing the chainsaw 50 minutes later.

Shocking CCTV footage from inside the pub shows Dinnen chasing drinkers desperately trying to escape.

Dinnen used the chainsaw to smash the glass in the pub door to get out as men armed with chairs and tables forced him out of the building.

He was overpowered and attacked by customers outside for "disrespecting their pub" as the police raced to the scene.

Mr Dinnen's barrister Richard Woolfall said: "He admitted he had a chainsaw and pleaded guilty.

"He lit a cigarette while he was in the pub and was very much under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

"He was taken outside and received punches. It was an element of summary justice for disrespecting their public house.

"What he did was wholly inappropriate. His intention was to scare them.

"His arrival was certainly a nasty surprise for those inside and must have been terrifying.

"It was clearly a significant escalation in events and many of those people feared for their own safety and their own lives."

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  • Profile image for bethmars1990

    by bethmars1990

    Saturday, February 18 2012, 11:53AM

    “I think the bravery of the man who went after him again & again with the barrel should be noticed. Anything couldve happened to him! That guy is sick & sadistic it's appalling!”

  • Profile image for Weekslider

    by Weekslider

    Wednesday, February 15 2012, 3:53AM

    “The "Looney Tunes" theme tune springs to mind,”

  • Profile image for Zola1984

    by Zola1984

    Tuesday, February 14 2012, 3:12AM

    “Its made headline news on the BBC News website on the UK and England pages, so god knows what the rest of the country thinks.”

  • Profile image for garethgee

    by garethgee

    Tuesday, February 14 2012, 1:43AM

    “Well Dean Dinnen - or should we call you Francis Begbie? - that was wise, going into a pub full of CCTV cameras armed with a chainsaw. What did you think would happen?

    I'm enjoying a lovely night in, with a glass or two of port, a few nibbles and my family all around me. Meanwhile you're in a filthy prison somewhere, banged up with all the other pondlife.

    I'm surprised you got only 3 years for this, but you're clearly a real nutcase, which means you'll be back inside again pretty soon after you get out.”

  • Profile image for bogartzen

    by bogartzen

    Monday, February 13 2012, 5:29PM

    “___________________
    HAVE A CIGAR #2
    (Or: Smokers Beware!)

    Empty or full.
    Don´t go to Hull.
    The Endyke Pub?
    You better scrub.
    Have a cigar
    in a different bar ~
    __________________

    Greetings from Norway,
    with coffee & cigarettes ..
    ,-)”

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    by localad

    Monday, February 13 2012, 2:45PM

    “imagine_that, insuting towards a number of posters, thank you, always the main sign that a person has totally lost the debate. And CT007and Pippa1952, good to see you also saw though imagine_thats weak and feeble points too, thank you.”

  • Profile image for Basil__Fawlty

    by Basil__Fawlty

    Monday, February 13 2012, 1:47PM

    “The Hull Chainsaw Massacre doesn't have the same ring to it.”

  • Profile image for E_Badger

    by E_Badger

    Monday, February 13 2012, 1:22PM

    “What could have been possibly the biggest breaking story in Hull, covered nationally and internationally by Fox News, the Huffington Post and New York Times as well as several major european news agencies, has now been upstaged by the death of Whitney Houston.

    The local tourism office must be quite relieved.”

  • Profile image for Imagine_that

    by Imagine_that

    Monday, February 13 2012, 7:20AM

    “CT007

    Sorry to disappoint you, but I have only just logged on since yesterday early evening and I have absolutely no interest in anything you have to post. Though I'm a bit surprised that you didn't point me to a pro-vivisection web site or ask me if I read hard back books.

    You obviously don't like posters to disagree with you so in response to that - all I can say is "Diddums".

    And enjoy your new relationship with pippa_mia_1951. You make a lovely couple.”

  • Profile image for Imagine_that

    by Imagine_that

    Monday, February 13 2012, 7:07AM

    “pippa1951

    In your own words, BUTT OUT.”

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