A thug said a man was "getting terrored" before hitting him in the face with an axe.
Scott McLean, who has a history of violent offending dating back more than 15 years, launched a brutal unprovoked assault upon the stranger on his own doorstep in the early hours. The victim was left with several broken facial bones as a result of the attack and had to travel to Turkey in order to undergo corrective dental work.
A trial at Liverpool Crown Court previously heard that Ahmet Kaya had been asleep at his house on Deepdale, in Widnes, on January 21 last year when he was woken at around 5am by banging at the front door. Simon Leong, prosecuting, described how he then heard a man speaking to his wife and went downstairs to investigate.
