Lobotomy By the Boot

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1335465/Steven-Cloaks-forehead-removed-drunken-attack-Jack-Hobbs.html

This sickening picture shows the result of a drink-crazed attack by a thug of 16.

Steven Cloak ended up with half his forehead missing after he was punched to the ground and booted in the skull.

Attacker Jack Hobbs, drunk on sambuca and beer, claimed his victim bumped into him outside a takeaway then "looked at him".

Steven, 26, was left with massive head and brain injuries.

attacker Jack Hobbs

Surgeons were forced to remove a huge piece of forehead to treat the damage.

Pictures taken after the op were so shocking a judge ruled they would prejudice Hobbs' trial.

But Steven's family took their own and have now released them to show how drunken violence ruins lives. Steven, who had a titanium plate fitted to rebuild his head, is recovering after the attack in Bideford, North Devon.

Hobbs, now 17, faces up to ten years' detention after being convicted of grievous bodily harm. An Exeter Crown Court judge lifted a ban on identifying the thug because of his age as he remanded him in custody for pre-sentence reports.

Hobbs told the jury: "I noticed him looking at me. I thought he was going to hit me."

But prosecutor David Evans said: "The truth is he was fired up on drink and playing the hardman."

The family of jobless Steven, who can't remember the attack, said: "He hasn't a violent bone in his body. All this because someone thought he'd been given a look."