A drunken thug battered a grandfather nearly double his age in a terrifying hammer attack after losing a bar fight to him. The incident began at a pub where a booze-fuelled Stephen Carney was becoming increasingly loud and out of hand before pestering a woman.
Granddad-of-six Stuart Whittingham, 57, stepped in and attempted to cool down the situation on Sunday February 9, according to the Liverpool Echo.
The 33-year-old then turned his attention to Mr Whittingham and began picking on him before a flurry of punches stopped him in his tracks.
But after losing the fight, cowardly Carney waited for his victim outside the boozer with a hammer. He repeatedly smacked him in the head, some as he lat on the floor.
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