Yobs attacked innocent man leaving him with a broken skull 'just for the sheer hell of it'

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attacked a man in the street for no reason leaving him with a broken skull and a bleed on his brain. Jack Geary and Thomas Price approached James Hansen in Liverpool city centre in the early hours of the morning of August 24 last year.

They also broke his nose and eye socket on Victoria Street, Liverpool Echo reports. Shocking CCTV footage showed them knock their victim out before they ran off, leaving him unconscious on the pavement.Almost one year after the terrifying ordeal, Mr Hansen, 22, has not regained some of his sense of taste and smell, Liverpool Crown Court heard.Judge Denis Watson, QC, said the "innocent" victim was attacked "for the sake of violence, just for the sheer hell of it".Geary, then 19, and Price, then 18, were in.