A thug punched and stamped on the head of a vulnerable man in a "revenge" attack that left him suffering with a brain injury.
Darren Yates drove up to the victim, who was sitting on a bench outside a chip shop in Seaham, on July 21 this year and launched a brutal attack that left him unconscious. Yates then "calmly" got back into his car and drove off as the victim was taken to hospital to be treated for his injuries.
Durham Crown Court heard the victim was a vulnerable man who had already sustained a brain injury as a result of a heart attack in 2019 and had suffered with short term memory loss and speech difficulties ever since. As Yates alleged the victim and two other men were responsible for attacking him in 2016, the court heart the attack Yates launched had a "hint of revenge" about it.
