IT worker filmed 'violent, drunken' assault as he punched and kicked unconscious student

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A clubber filmed himself viciously attacking a helpless student in a ruthless assault. Not content with repeatedly punching his victim in the face and body, Joshua McLaughlan twice went back to continue the attack, this time kicking the stranger after a "red mist” descended. “Not only was it a persistent, unlawful, violent, drunken assault, you were clearly trying to store images to almost glorify what you were about,” judge Recorder Andrew McLoughlin said. READ MORE:Two Manchester men among three dead in horror A1 crash McLaughlan, a 26-year-old IT network engineer, left Joshua Ormrod lying unconscious in the street but he was detained by nearby door staff while other security guards gave first aid to the victim.

Liverpool Crown Court heard today (Wednesday, January 19) that Mr Ormrod was taken to hospital where he underwent a CT scan.

Although he had facial bruises and cuts, he miraculously escaped more serious injury. “It is only by good fortune that he did not suffer any more serious injury.

It could have been a lot worse,” the judge added. CCTV footage of the attack, which occurred at 4.30 am on June 17 last year in Fleet Street in Liverpool city centre, was played to the cour.