Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A thug battered a vulnerable man over the head with a 15kg barbell after trying to grab his wallet.Lee Currie knocked the victim to the ground with a first blow with the weight then aimed a second as he lay helpless.The 43-year-old carried out the brutal attack in the Edinburgh flat of John Stevens who suffers from health problems.Police arrived to find John badly injured with pools of blood on the floor.Currie fled on a bike still carrying the barbell and handed it to a stranger outside a barber shop who noticed dried blood on his hands.The dad-of-two appeared at the city’s sheriff court on Thursday and admitted assaulting John to his severe.
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