A drunken thug stamped on a teenager's head before bragging "that little doughnut got put to sleep" in a vicious city centre attack.
Violent thug Aidan Dansie stamped on the head of a 17-year-old boy so hard he knocked him out and left behind a footprint, a court heard. Dansie, 30, punched the stranger to the ground on a night out in Liverpool City Centre in a sudden and unprovoked attack.
He then bragged: "That little doughnut got put to sleep." Carpenter Dansie claimed the teenager had somehow threatened him with a knife - a lie a judge rejected as "ridiculous".
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His victim told Plymouth Crown Court in a statement it was only luck he could walk away without major injury. But he said his head was so painful when he rested on a pillow he struggled to sleep for two weeks.
PlymouthLive said Dansie has a long record for assaults and was jailed at the same court in 2019 for assaulting a man who was on a first date with an ex-partner. He climbed through a window of the woman's flat on the Barbican and hit him around the head – leaving him scarred for life.
Sending him back to prison for 16 months, Judge William Mousley told Dansie: "You were on a night out in Liverpool City Centre. This 17-year-old was out and about behaving himself and not particularly trying to attract attention.
"You punched him to the floor so that he was unconscious and stamped on his head. You were aggressive and abusive towards others who were concerned about him. Photographs taken indicate the pattern of a shoe on the side of his head, clearly indicating you had stamped upon him."
The judge said Dansie at first said nothing in interview when arrested later that night before coming up with what he called a "ridiculous story" of the 17-year-old having a knife. Dansie, of Leatfield Drive, Derriford, pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm on September 12, 2020.
Nigel Hall, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said the victim had little recollection of the attack near the Baa Bar in Fleet Street due to his injury - though it was caught on CCTV footage just before 1.30am.
He added the teenager's girlfriend was a few steps away and turned to see him on the ground. Mr Hall said she asked the stranger why she had hit her boyfriend and he swore and said he would hit her next.
A doorman from the Black Rabbit bar nearby said that Dansie and three other men had just been refused entry. He later told police that they had goaded other clubbers before Dansie hit the teenager.
The barrister said Dansie and his friends left the scene but returned to the area later - and the doorman pointed him out to police. Mr Hall told the court Dansie said: "That little doughnut got put to sleep."
The court heard the victim was taken to hospital with a swollen and bruised face which bore a shoe mark. Mr Hall said he was "confused and frightened" when he came around.
Mr Hall reading a statement from the teenager, continued: "I was sore for about two weeks, I was not able to sleep properly because it was painful to put my head on the pillow. It was one of the first times I had been out in Liverpool and this incident has knocked my confidence."
The court heard that Dansie had chalked up 17 offences, almost all of them for assault. He was on licence at the time of the Liverpool attack after his release from the 26-month prison sentence imposed for the Barbican assault and other offences in July 2019.
He was also convicted of attacking two emergency workers two months after the assault on the teenager.
Rebecca Wood, for Dansie, said he was out on a birthday celebration for one of his brothers but was not used to drinking. The solicitor said he had "little recollection" of the incident and had "shocked himself" with his actions.
Miss Wood added that he was the main carer for his mother and was a well-respected self-employed carpenter. She added that he had a supportive partner. She added: "He is hard-working and family-oriented".
