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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Andrew Bardsley

Cocaine-fuelled boxer used victim 'as a punchbag' in terrifying random attack

A boxer left a young man needing surgery after 'using him as a punchbag' for 'no apparent reason' during a brutal street attack.

Kian Winstanley punched the 22-year-old several times to the face, after the attacker and his friends had been asked to leave a pub in Bury.

The victim had been out with family celebrating a birthday when they came across 'angry' Winstanley and his group. Winstanley, 19, had been in the pub all afternoon and had taken cocaine, Manchester Crown Court heard.

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