Two youths who battered a jogger with planks of wood and left him for dead have been locked up.
David Browne was left with permanent brain damage after being attacked while out for an early morning run on New Brighton Promenade. But the former police officer's teenage assailants will be allowed to keep their identities a secret due to a court judgement.
Liverpool Crown Court heard the then 56-year-old saw Boy A and Boy B swinging pieces of wood around as a young woman was passing them near to the Black Pearl pirate ship shortly before 7.30am on January 12 last year. She was left "unnerved" by the louts, and a concerned Mr Browne confronted the pair.
