These shocking images of the results of a single punch attack show the victim with "half his head missing" – as the thug responsible is jailed. Jamie Kelly, 41, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, was in a coma for weeks after suffering a bleed on the brain.
He lost half his skull and is likely to need specialist care for the rest of his life, York Crown Court was told. Daniel Johnson, 32, felled him with a single punch as they stood at a pedestrian crossing at lunchtime on September 16.
He was jailed yesterday for two years and five months after he admitted grievous bodily harm. Mr Kelly's mother, Brenda, said he had been left "a shell of a man".
Johnson struck Jamie with such force that surgeons had to remove a large part of his skull while treating the bleed on his brain. Shocking pictures released by Jamie’s family reveal the full extent of his devastating injuries, which have left him bed-bound and dependant on specialist care for life.
His crestfallen father told York Crown Court yesterday (Monday) it was “heart-breaking” to see his son “struggle” and said he didn’t know how much Jamie would recover. His distraught added that her son now as “shell of a man” who couldn’t shower, eat or walk and had to drink through a “sippy cup” following the “senseless” attack.
She said: “My son needs to learn to walk again because Daniel Johnson decided he would punch him, obviously intending to hurt him. One punch - that's all it took to destroy my boy’s life as he knew it.”
Johnson received two years and five months’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to grievous bodily harm.
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