A vigilante who attacked a teenager with an 18in-long baton in the street has been sent to prison.
Witnesses watched as 24-year-old Corey Watson gave a savage beating to his 17-year-old victim at Blackwell Road, Currock, Carlisle, in front of shocked passers-by.
The teen suffered multiple cuts which had to be glued in hospital.
Carlisle Crown Court heard Watson had acted in revenge after his sister's home was burgled and damaged the previous night.
Having pleaded guilty to charges of unlawful wounding and possessing an offensive weapon, on February 21, he was sentenced today and jailed.
Watson, the father of a young daughter and a man with mental health issues, was said to be "extremely remorseful" for the crime.
But Judge Peter Hughes QC told Watson, of Marks Avenue, Raffles: "This was a vengeful attack in a public place which you plainly had already planned to carry out."
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