Thug who left young man brain damaged could be released early from prison

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The parents of a young man who was left with severe brain damage after a brutal unprovoked attack are terrified that his attacker could be released from jail in months due to emergency measures to combat prison overcrowding.The End of Custody Supervised License (ECSL) was introduced in October to ease overcrowding in jails across England and Wales and allows certain prisoners to be released up to 70 days before the end of their sentence.However, the Prime Minister told the House of Commons that "no one" would be put on the scheme "if they were deemed a threat to public safety", reports Swansea Live.The chilling news of the new emergency measures has been stressful for parents Wendy and Alan Turner whose 20-year-old son Callum, was battered by Paul Roberts back in, 2021 and still faces the life changing consequences today.The 33-year-old thug was among a group of rowdy men who had been drinking most of the day and had taken cocaine.As Callum walked up the road, Roberts stepped up to him and said "I'm in the f***ing mood for a fight" before punching Callum to the side of the head in an entirely unprovoked assault.The court heard that Callum fell back and cracked his head on the pavement with one witness saying they heard a "cracking sound".Callum was rushed straight to hospital where he underwent a CT scan and was found to have a fractured skull and a bleed on the brain.

He remained in hospital but on July 22, 2021, he took a turn for the worse and became violently sick, unsteady on his feet and suffered multiple seizures.Another CT scan found a far worse bleed on the brain and he was put on a ventilator and given fluids intravenously.Over the next few weeks he slowly recovered, but it was found that while his progress was