A former B&Q worker who beat a co-worker "within an inch of her life" in a pair of steel toe-capped shoes has been jailed for life. Andy Hurns left his victim horrifically facially disfigured. His minimum term was set at 21 years.
Hurns was drunk when he attacked her in Tunnel Road, Retford, and escaped with just her mobile. Hurns, who worked with the victim at the distribution outlet in Retford Road, Worksop, was found guilty by a jury at Nottingham Crown Court on Friday, February 18, of trying to kill the woman, who lived alone in a property opposite where Hurns used to live.
Judge Gregory Dickinson QC, the Recorder of Nottingham, told Hurns he had subjected the victim to a sustained and brutal attack with his fists and steel toe capped shoes. "You deliberately inflicted on her a very serious injury - you kicked a hole in the centre of her face, causing terrible and life-changing injury," he said.
