What won’t we hear! A naked thug broke his artist neighbour’s neck leaving him paralysed for life, all because his music disturbed his drug-fuelled sex session.
Ryan Mutch, high on cocaine, and his girlfriend Natalie Brabin viciously attacked Colin Otty, 45, before throwing him down the stairs to make his severe injuries look like an accident.
Mr Otty was punched and stamped on by Mutch, 39, and Brabin, 34, before Mutch grabbed him in a headlock and applied pressure until he felt his neck “pop”.
He said that the brutal attack has left him a “prisoner in his own body”.
Mutch was locked up for 12 and a half years at Liverpool Crown Court Monday after admitting causing GBH with intent, while Brabin was handed three years in prison for causing GBH without intent.
A harrowing victim personal statement from Mr Otty, read to the court, said: “Imagine waking up in the morning, and that’s it. All I can do is open my eyes. I can’t lift my head off the pillow… I am paralysed. The attack has absolutely and completely destroyed my life. My life has been taken from me. I am a prisoner in my body until the day I die…
“I can’t look after myself. I am not who I was. I exist as a brain inside a body that doesn’t work anymore. It is both a life and death sentence for me.”
Mr Otty said he had enjoyed painting and listening to his record collection before the attack, but now “cannot even tap along to the music”.
Charles Lander, prosecuting, told the court that Mr Otty is expected to be a paraplegic for life and will need 24 hour care.
The court heard he had been listening to music in his then flat in Liverpool in the early hours of May 18 last year when he heard a knock at the door and was confronted by the completely naked Mutch.
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