A man who four decades ago as a child played one of the most iconic roles in cinematic history – Damien in The Omen – has pleaded guilty to assaulting two cyclists in a road rage attack.
Harvey Spencer Stephens was aged five years when he starred in the role of the Antichrist in the 1976 horror movie, with his mother and father played, respectively, by Gregory Peck and Lee Remick.
He found himself in court charged with two counts of actual bodily harm and one of criminal damage following an incident on Toys Hill in Kent in August 2016, reports The Mirror.
The 46-year-old, who was driving his Audi RS6, admitted punching two cyclists – one of them with enough force that it smashed his helmet [cue the Ava Satana music – Ed].
Stephens, who is believed to work in property nowadays, may have starred in The Omen, but his sentencing took place a date shared with another horror franchise – Friday The Thirteenth.
At Maidstone Crown Court, Judge Martin Joy sentenced him to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years on the two ABH charges, and to two months on jail, suspended for two years, on the count of criminal damage.
“This was undoubtedly a serious case of road-rage and quite plainly it was a substantial attack, and quite clearly it has had an ongoing effect on the victims,” said he judge.
He also ordered Stephens to undertake 150 hours of unpaid work and to pay compensation of £1,000 to each victim as well as £120 to the cyclist whose helmet he broke.
In one scene from the movie with which Stephens will forever be linked, shown in the video above, the character Damien rode a trike around the family home – supposedly the American ambassador’s London residence, in keeping with Peck’s role – causing his mother to fall and miscarry her child.
22 thoughts on “Man who was Damien child actor in The Omen sentenced for assaulting cyclists”
Re the headline: the
Re the headline: the character is “Damien” not “Damian”. Just sayin’
150 hours of unpaid work and
150 hours of unpaid work and to pay compensation of £1,000 to each victim as well as £120 to the cyclist whose helmet he broke
Same old same old.
More vehicular vermin that should not be allowed to sit in a driving seat let alone be given the keys.
From the Guardian report:
In mitigation, defence counsel Ben Irwin said Stephens, who had no previous convictions, pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity and accepted he “behaved poorly”.
Referencing his childhood stardom, he said: “As a child he was an actor. That wasn’t a route he wanted to go down and he became a futures trader.”
Which is the kind of irrelevant bilge water that passes to justify the following kind of behaviour…
Stephens, who then accelerated heavily before overtaking the pair and pulling over.
Brand said Stephens punched Richardson, knocking him unconscious, which prompted Manley to intervene. Stephens responded by asking Manley: “You want some do you?” before punching him twice in the face, causing him to fall on his back with his bicycle still between his legs.
Stephens held Manley down and punched him six or seven times, inflicting dental injuries and damaging his helmet,
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emishi55 wrote:
Surprised the judge didn’t ask him to do 666 hours.
The BBC report says he had an
The BBC report says he had an attack of road rage because he was held up momentarily by two cyclists riding side by side *because one was overtaking the other*. Thoroughly disgusting behaviour- I mean, *overtaking*? How very dare they!
“An unhappy Friday The 13th
“An unhappy Friday The 13th for star of cult 1970s horror movie as he is sentenced”
Has no one here ever heard of ‘fake news’? What does it take for people to wake up to the most blatant Mockingbird bullshit?
sanderville wrote:
Its in all the uk tabloids, the guardian, the evening standard and the BBC, and that’s just the first page in Google. How do *you* know it’s fake?
no prison cos he’s rich
no prison cos he’s rich
Bob Wheeler CX wrote:
More like no prison cos ‘driver’.
What sort of sentencing would this be if it had happened with them as pedestrians on a high street – unprovoked attack on people causing him frustration for no apparent reason? Banged up, shirley? Or would the guilty plea have the same effect?
Edit: ‘plea’ not ‘please’, android
davel wrote:
no prison cos he’s rich
— davel More like no prison cos ‘driver’. What sort of sentencing would this be if it had happened with them as pedestrians on a high street – unprovoked attack on people causing him frustration for no apparent reason? Banged up, shirley? Or would the guilty plea have the same effect? Edit: ‘plea’ not ‘please’, android— Bob Wheeler CX
Exactly. If this had been common assault, with no car or “road rage” involved, he’d be facing a couple of years in prison. But because he was driving a car, and the people he did the unprovoked assault on were cyclists, he gets a slap on the wrist.
British justice; finest in the world. For car drivers.
burtthebike wrote:
not always, couple of my friends were victims of a particularly nasty aggrevated assault just walking home from a pub once, two lads lept out of a car (ok so does that make them car drivers in this too) and attacked them, fortunately my friends escaped with only minor bruises & managed to call the police, who remarkably caught the (known) individuals, who surprise surprise had previous for this kind of thing, but all they got sentenced to was a fine and some (more) community service.
“An unhappy Friday the 13th”?
“An unhappy Friday the 13th”?!
He was probably skipping out of the courtroom to his gas-guzzling nob-mobile, chuckling about how fantastic the British justice system is for scum like himself.
What a joke!
I always knew he was a bad un
I always knew he was a bad un since he had his mother off the balcony on that tricycle.
It would have to be an
It would have to be an exceptionally brave judge to send Damien from the Omen to prison.
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I can see why you went with his former profession in the headline, because “Scum-sucking estate agent shows utter contempt for his fellow man” wouldn’t really sound very newsworthy. Nor would “Owner of grossly overpowered Audi has lead foot and zero patience” or “Judge lets maniac continue driving”.
handlebarcam wrote:
I can see why you went with his former profession in the headline, because “Scum-sucking estate agent shows utter contempt for his fellow man” wouldn’t really sound very newsworthy. Nor would “Owner of grossly overpowered Audi has lead foot and zero patience” or “Judge lets maniac continue driving”.
That’s true. Saying he’s a former child actor most famous for playing the son of Satan does make him seem more sympathetic, now you mention it…
I have no idea what
I have no idea what ‘possessed’ him to do that…
I fail to see what relevance
I fail to see what relevance his previous child acting exploits have on this case at all..
He assaulted two cyclists, got off extremely lightly. No justice whatsoever.
Rjt75 wrote:
Because it’s actual proof that Satan hates cyclists.
So the anti christ works in
So the anti christ works in the London property market then. Surprising news.
Nice one Road.cc
Nice one Road.cc
Way to trivialise an incident where one cyclist was knocked unconscious and another had his face smashed in for, basically, no reason at all by writing a cheeky little clickbait headline, then dropping a few little puns into the article for good measure. For fuck’s sake, this article could have been lifted directly from the Daily Heil
Meanwhile, this shitcrumpet is free to do the same thing to anybody else that takes his fancy. Depressingly familiar.
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Um… pretty sure it was the other way round. Unless they both did what would by any standards be measured an oscar-winning cross-dressing performance.
I guess he really was the
I guess he really was the
Devil In-CAR-nate….