A terrified disabled man was brutally attacked in front of his grandchildren after an intruder broke in, threatened him with a knife and attacked him with his own walker in a raid that was "every person's worst nightmare".
Bradley Nolan, 24, broke into the victim's home on New Year's Day morning and kicked away the victim's walker, causing him to fall, before punching him and threatening his five and eight-year-old grandchildren. He later said he acted in a "stupid moment of madness" because he was distraught at his mother "abandoning" him to live in Ireland and was arrested at Leeds Bradford Airport while trying to get a flight out to see her, HullLive reports.
Nolan, of Cottingham, East Yorkshire, admitted aggravated burglary and was jailed for six years and nine months.. Richard Davies, prosecuting, said that the disabled man, now aged 61, was asleep in a ground-floor flat in Burden Road, Beverley, at 6am when he was awoken by Nolan shouting at him to wake up.
