Thug attacked the terrified former Marine, 94, who was in his own home

A court heard that the terrified victim, a wheelchair user, “had never felt so scared in his entire life” and “thought he was going to die”, since he was beaten by Leon Burgess in Newton-Le-Willows

He had responded to Burgess while waiting for a caregiver.

A judge said that “only a custody sentence” could be justified since he imprisoned Burges for robbery and injured crimes.

The 22 -year -old appeared through a video link at the Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday morning (February 27) to be sentenced after the case was postponed after the presentations of the Prosecutor’s Office and the defense on Monday.

Burgess ‘made its way’ in the victim’s house

The court heard that on December 6 of last year, Burgess entered the direction of his 94 -year -old victim.

In short the incident events before approving the sentence, Judge Gary Woodhall said the victim “depended on a wheelchair, lived alone and opened the door because he was waiting for a delivery of his caregiver.” You were unknown to him. ”

The judge added: “You opened its way to the property that rose on it and pushed it back as you did.”

Burgess “ignored” man’s supplications to leave and “get into his face.”

The victim “took his cane to defend himself” and “Burges” fought him. ”

He added to Burgess, “he stopped on him and behaved as if you were going to hit him.”

Burgess was sentenced by a judge in the Liverpool Crown Court (Image: St Helens Star)

Burgess later sat on the couch before standing up and “quite strangely” began to shake his victim’s hand. Then “he raised his fist again,” leaving the veteran “unable to do anything but take what was happening,” and took his seat once more.

During his terrifying proof, the victim suffered a cut on his forearm, suspicion of broken ribs and bruises on his forehead and chest.

It was only when Burges “lay on the couch and seemed to fall asleep,” that the victim could “give the alarm”, going to seek help in a Texaco garage in Crow Lane.

The man described how “he had never felt so scared in his entire life” and “he thought he was going to die.”

Leon Burgess was imprisoned by a Liverpool Crown Court judge (Image: Merseyside Police)

A personal statement of the victim said that the major victim had stayed with “a permanent scar” and “feel scared in her own home and feel vulnerable” and with “problems with her appetite.”

The judge pointed out that “those injuries are clearly more significant than they seem through their description and that is due to the vulnerability of his victim.”

The court heard that Burges had four previous convictions for 16 crimes, even for assaults and possession of an offensive weapon.

The judge said that in a report prior to the sentence, Burges had suffered “childhood trauma” and was “addicted to class A drugs” and had a “significant drug debt” at the time of the crime and Burges declared that “he had no memory of this crime.”

Burgess, from Clarence Street, Newton-Le-Willows, had declared robbery and illegal wounds.

The judge passes the sentence to reflect the “severity of the crimes”

Judge Woodhall said that the crime of theft was “aggravated” for being “committed under the influence of alcohol and drugs” and the “vulnerability” of the “previous convictions” of the victim and Burgess.

He added that the wound offensive was “aggravated” due to the “level of bruises and cuts” and that was committed “in the victim’s house” and for the “psychological effect of the crime.”

The judge said that in the “mitigation” of Burgess it was his “remorse”, the “background of the accused” and the “steps” taken to “address his addiction.”

Judge Woodhall said that, since both crimes came from a “single piece of crime,” concurrent convictions would happen. Taking theft as the “main crime”, the judge said “would approve a total sentence to reflect the combined gravity of both crimes.”

Giving Burges a 25 percent reduction for his guilt statements, the judge said that after a trial he would have approved a five -year sentence for theft, reduced to three years and nine months.

Burgess received a concurrent term of 40 months for the wound, which made a total sentence of three years and nine months.