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The Daily Record - NEWS - News Feed - DEAF MAN'S ATTACKER IS LOCKED UP
A TEENAGE thug who maimed a deaf man was sentenced to three years' detention yesterday.
Jordan Milne, 18 - already on probation for an attack in which his father was set on fire - punched 40-year-old Timothy Nicholson to the ground then stamped on his head.
Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard how he left his victim unconscious with facial injuries, a fractured jaw and skull and brain injuries.
Helen Knipe, prosecuting, said Mr Nicholson had been at a deaf club with a couple of friends and was "a little tipsy" when he came across Milne and two other youths.
He told the group, who he did not know, that he was deaf then found himself under attack.
John Hardy, defending, said Milne had a "short but serious" criminal record.
He was cleared in 2005 of attempting to murder his father during a Hogmanay row but convicted of assaulting him.
Sheriff Kieran McLernan told Milne: "This was an unprovoked attack on a person with a disability which was disclosed to you.
"You were fortunate you did not inflict fatal injuries."
A TEENAGE thug who maimed a deaf man was sentenced to three years' detention yesterday.
Jordan Milne, 18 - already on probation for an attack in which his father was set on fire - punched 40-year-old Timothy Nicholson to the ground then stamped on his head.
Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard how he left his victim unconscious with facial injuries, a fractured jaw and skull and brain injuries.
Helen Knipe, prosecuting, said Mr Nicholson had been at a deaf club with a couple of friends and was "a little tipsy" when he came across Milne and two other youths.
He told the group, who he did not know, that he was deaf then found himself under attack.
John Hardy, defending, said Milne had a "short but serious" criminal record.
He was cleared in 2005 of attempting to murder his father during a Hogmanay row but convicted of assaulting him.
Sheriff Kieran McLernan told Milne: "This was an unprovoked attack on a person with a disability which was disclosed to you.
"You were fortunate you did not inflict fatal injuries."
