A thug accused an innocent commuter of being a paedophile before battering him and biting his ear in a train station.
The care assistant was on his way to work early in the morning when Jack Ricketts began hurling abuse at him then subjected him to a "brutal" unprovoked assault. He feared he was going to lose his ear when his attacker sunk his teeth into it.
Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday, Monday, that the man was walking to Birkenhead Central Station shortly before 7.30am on October 23 last year when the drunken defendant began shouting at him. Ben Jones, prosecuting, described how Ricketts called him a "paedophile" and began ranting about his sister.
