A pensioner was placed in intensive care and suffered life-changing injuries after being attacked outside a pub.
Denis Cunliffe was left with a bleed on the brain after being attacked outside the Sefton in St Helens town centre before falling and hitting his head on the floor. Josh Hoskison, 25, dished out the unprovoked attack after rowing with his girlfriend and brawling with another stranger who had attempted to intervene.
Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday, Wednesday, that the incident unfolded in the early hours of September 1 last year. At around 1.15am, a passerby encountered the couple engaged in a heated argument near to the Baldwin Street establishment.
