sentenced on July 7 for stabbing her in the back. Matthew Jay Hunter appeared before the court, where he was handed a three-year Probation Order.
Sentencing the 29-year-old for the knife attack which occurred in June 2019, Judge Stephen Fowler QC revealed that Hunter had sustained life-changing injuries primarily to his brain, after he was whacked over the head with an iron bar by his mum's boyfriend.
The attack, which took place at Hunter's mother's flat in Belfast, was carried out in December 2015, reports Belfast Live.Hunter contracted multiple fractures to his skull and has been left with severe brain damage which affects his way of life daily.His attacker Ryan Taylor was subsequently handed a 14-year sentence for the iron bar attack,.
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