A Merseyside man wept as he was jailed for a vicious attack which a court was told left his victim looking like the Elephant Man.
Billy Swindells launched the attack thinking his victim had assaulted him two weeks earlier - but he got the wrong man.
A court heard he had never been in trouble before, and had acted out of character while drunk.
Swindells, 20, came up behind Robert Hignett and Saul Fowles as they were walking near Wigan Road, Ormskirk, on their way to a party in the early hours of March 13, the Liverpool Echo reports.
Paul Becker, prosecuting, said Swindells started kicking Mr Fowles and threw him to the ground and repeatedly kicked him to the head.
When arrested Swindells said he had been out drinking and was drunk when he saw the two men and believed they had
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