A thug ex-boxer who slammed a bottle into a pub landlord's face while he pleaded for him to "leave the kids alone" has had his lenient prison sentence doubled.
Security guards Joshua Kehoe (also known as Yates) and George Harper terrorised an 18th birthday party at the Manor Farm Pub, Rainhill, after Kehoe was accused of rifling through a 17-year-old barmaid's bag, on the evening of May 13, 2021. What followed involved a vicious, prolonged attack on multiple victims - which including kicking and punching an unconscious man in the head as he lay motionless on the floor.
Former boxer Kehoe, of Cretan Road, Wavertree, was jailed for four years and Harper, of Holland Street, Fairfield, for two years and eight months this summer by Judge Judith Bond, sitting at Liverpool Crown Court. However the Solicitor General's office referred the case to The Court of Appeal under the "unduly lenient" scheme, arguing the sentence was far too short.
