A "dangerous bully" battered a disabled man with a beer bottle in a vicious robbery after spotting him using a Zimmer frame in a hotel.
Stephen Earle, 36, followed vulnerable Peter Keppie into his room at the Scarisbrick Hotel on Lord Street, Southport, at around 10am on August 15 last year. Mr Keppie, also 36, was living at the hotel because it could cater for his mobility needs while he was awaiting an operation for a congenital back problem.
Liverpool Crown Court heard Earle, who was carrying two Desperado beer bottles, shut the door behind them and asked Mr Keppie if he could buy valium from him, and offered to give him cocaine.
