A man had to have titanium plates fitted to his jaw after being attacked outside a bar following the Champions League final.
The recovering heart attack victim was subjected to a brutal unprovoked assault by Carl Perry after watching Liverpool FC's defeat to Real Madrid in the Loft in Woolton in May this year. The thug punched him in the pub's smoking area before returning five minutes later and knocking him out, breaking his jaw in two places and fracturing his eye socket.
Liverpool Crown Court heard today, Friday, that Michael Stabler had been out with family members - including his nephew, who had only recently turned 18 - on the evening of May 28 this year. Both parties had watched the match screened on televisions in the Allerton Road establishment, and while the 43-year-old and Perry had had an altercation in the toilets during the course of the night the pair had "shaken on it".
