A vicious thug killed a loving dad who accidentally stood on his foot in a nightclub.
Robert Owen Greenhalgh punched 36-year-old Robert Smethurst as the dad-of-two celebrated his birthday with his cousin Aaron Bates in Bolton town centre. Greenhalgh, a cocaine and steroid addled bodybuilder who called himself the "hardest c*** in the North West", appeared in court for sentencing for the unprovoked attack, reported M. E. N.
Mr Smethurst, a company director for a firm in the aviation industry, had accidentally stood on Greenhalgh's foot earlier in the evening, but he had apologised and there were no further problems while they were both in Luxe Lounge on Bradshawgate. Without warning at about 1.30am, Greenhalgh, 31, a joiner who ran his own firm, hit Mr Bates and then punched Mr Smethurst with the force of a "heavyweight boxer", Manchester Crown Court heard.
