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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Blake Foden

'Society abhors attacks of this nature': Coward punch victim on liquid diet for months

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The victim of an "abhorrent" attack outside a Canberra strip club was unable to eat solid foods for two months in the wake of a coward punch that left his friend thinking he was dead.

Marcos Paredes Valdez, the drunken assailant who knocked the victim out and broke his jaw, received a two-year intensive correction order when he was sentenced in the ACT Supreme Court on Tuesday.

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