A man suffered a fractured eye socket after being set upon by a half-naked attacker hiding in an alleyway, a court has heard. A topless Ryan Thomas repeatedly punched his victim in the face as the man walked home from the shop before running off.
Thomas is currently serving an extended prison sentence as a dangerous offender after bursting into a man's house and bludgeoning him about the head with a pickaxe handle leaving him with bleeding on the brain. Swansea Crown Court heard the 30-year-old defendant is making "good progress" in prison and wants to start his own industrial cleaning business when he is released from custody.
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