A trained martial artist on an ‘alcohol and cocaine-fuelled binge’ knocked out a stranger after thinking he heard the victim’s friend ‘talking s***’ about him.
Otis Johnson, 24, walked up to Adam Walkden and punched him to the back of the head, knocking him unconscious. Mr Walkden needed a six-hour operation to insert metal plates into his jaw following the attack last summer.
Dad-of-one Johnson, from, Whitefield, has now been jailed for two years and six months after admitting causing grievous bodily harm.
Sentencing him, Judge Paul Lawton said it was one of the most ‘senseless and gratuitous’ acts of violence he has ever witnessed in all his years as a circuit judge.
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