A man has been jailed after he smashed a disabled pub-goer over the head with a glass last June.
Michael Maughan, 21, of Hurstwood Avenue, Blackburn, was jailed today (February 10) for a “brutal” attack in which he used two pool cues and a glass on a disabled man who lay unconscious on the floor.
The sustained attack took place in the Railway Pub, Accrington, and saw a drunk Maughan punch the man before wielding the pool cue like a baseball bat and smashing him over the head, hitting him so hard that it broke the cue in half.
As the pub-goer lay unconscious on the floor, Maughan retrieved a second pool cue and beat him repeatedly before smashing a glass over his head, laughing throughout the assault.
He then told the pub landlord: “Am I barred? Because if I am I will finish him off,” he also threatened to deal out violence to anyone who called the police.
The 21-year-old will spend nine years behind bars for the assault and was classed as a “dangerous offender” by the judge.
Sentencing, Judge Richard Gioserano said: “It was a brutal and sickening attack and you showed the victim no mercy.
“The CCTV of the attack caused your own mother to leave court distressed by what she saw her own son do.
“I can’t say the full, brutal nature of the attack was premeditated but you did go out looking for trouble.
“It took no more than a simple request to sit somewhere else to trigger your violence. It was a gratuitous degradation of this man.”
Maughan, a member of the traveling community, entered the Railway Pub on Blackburn Road in Accrington at about 5.30 pm on June 15 last year.
He was clearly intoxicated and told staff that he had taken ‘lots of cocaine.’
The 21-year-old asked the staff if he was still barred and then proceeded to pour himself a drink and take a bottle of Sambucca from behind the bar.
Maughan then sat at a table where a 62-year-old disabled man was enjoying a drink.
The 62-year-old asked Maughan if he would move away but the 21-year-old reacted by punching him in the head, knocking him onto the floor.
It was then that Maughan began his ferocious attack, leaving the disabled man with lacerations on his face and severe bruising to his abdomen and side.
The 62-year-old spent two nights in the hospital and told the court that the attack had left him with mental health conditions and a two-inch permanent scar on his temple. Read More
