Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A drug dealing teenager who left a man permanently blind in a frenzied hammer attack has been jailed.
In a horrific assault, Jack Halliwell, of Stockport, struck his victim up to 12 times before taking a picture of him as he lay unconscious and posting it on social media.
The 40-year-old victim was repeatedly hit with a hammer in the attack, which took place in the space of just two minutes inside a flat in Arnold Street, Nantwich.
Halliwell had been using the flat as a place to deal drugs and it is believed a dispute had taken place between him and the victim over a debt, before the teenager carried out the brutal attack.
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