Two teens used pieces of wood to batter a retired police officer to within an inch of his life in an unprovoked attack as he went for a run.
David Browne had tried to stop the boys, then aged 15, from hassling another jogger on New Brighton Promenade early last year but was himself subjected to a horrendous assault.
Mr Browne stopped breathing in the moments after the attack, which saw the boys beat him repeatedly in front of horrified members of the public, and was left with brain damage.
