A YOUNG Rugby man who left an actor with a fractured eye socket following an unprovoked attack in a graveyard has blown the chance he was given to stay out of jail.
Liam Adams had been given a suspended sentence after a judge at Warwick Crown Court heard that his forgiving victim did not want the incident to ruin Adams’s life.
As part of the 18-month suspended sentence, Adams, of Bond Street, had been ordered do 120 hours of unpaid work and to take part in a rehabilitation activity.
But since the sentence was imposed in August last year,the 21-year-old had repeatedly failed to turn up to carry out the unpaid work, attending just four sessions out of the 35 he was offered.
And after he admitted breaching the sentence by failing to attend a number of those sessions, Judge Anthony Potter ordered him to serve 12 months of the sentence.
At the original hearing prosecutor Omar Majid said his victim was had been to a rehearsal before going out with friends in Rugby.
At the Midas night club he bumped into an ex-girlfriend – but he remembered nothing between dancing with her and waking up in hospital.
According to Adams, the actor had been ‘hassling’ him and the girl, who had gone to a nearby graveyard for a ‘spliff,’ and kept offering to walk her home.
Adams initially told an officer he got annoyed and had hit him once to the face – and he showed the officer his right hand which he said he thought might be broken.
“But he subsequently accepted he had seen red and had punched and kicked him several times, and had stamped on his chest and kicked him to the head,” said Mr Majid.
“The victim had been left on the ground unresponsive, with his jacket chucked on top of him, and passers-by simply thought he was a drunk.”
In fact it was Adams himself who called for an ambulance after about 15 minutes, and the victim was taken to hospital where he was found to have a fractured eye socket, a minor contusion to his brain and broken teeth.
Lucy Tapper, defending, said: “It isn’t often a defendant calls not only an ambulance, but the police to report himself.”
