A 21-year-old man has been jailed after killing an elderly with a single punch outside a Newcastle pub in January.
According to BBC, Sean Sillet, 21, was jailed for five years and three months after beating up Kenneth Brough, 65, outside of Newcastle’s Bigg Market pub in a dispute about a pint.
Mirror reported that James Goss, judge at Newcastle Crown Court, said Brough was a “kind, placid” man. He added, “By reason of your drunken aggression and confrontational behaviour culminating in an assault, the life of Mr Brough has been needlessly lost.”
Brough was in a coma for about a week before he died on February 7.
Sillet challenged Brough’s friend for a fight after punching his pint, but he was thrown out of the pub. He hung around and waited for Brough’s group to come out. Brough pushed Sillet backwards, and then Sillet punched him back which caused Brough fell and cracked his head on the ground.
Although Sillet said he was sorry for Brough, he did not seem to mean that. “He hit me first so I hit him back. I will punch him again when I see him,” he said.
Goss said nothing could undo what Sillet had done to Brough, “No sentence of this court can undo the harm you have done or reflect the value of his life, that was ended prematurely by your violence.”
