A thug took a ‘boxer stance’ before repeatedly punching his friend over 40 times then ‘coming back for more’ as he lay unconscious on the ground.
Rafael Macarron, 33, had been drinking at a friends’ house, alongside the victim, before they all moved onto the Printers Arms in Cheadle in December last year. Macarron and the man had drank seven cans of beer between them, before drinking more at the pub.
There were no initial issues between them, and all appeared to be having a good time, prosecutor March Pritchard told Minshull Street Crown Court.
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After leaving the pub on December 21 at around 11pm, however, things took a turn when Macarron and the man began arguing.
In CCTV footage shown to the court, both men were circling each other, before Macarron put his arms up in a fighting stance. The victim took a step back before kicking out at him and was met with a punch to the face.
He immediately fell to the ground, with Macarron ‘raining’ punches down onto his head and face.
In the shocking video he swung both arms at the man’s head as he lay unresponsive on the ground.
“The Crown says that he was punched around 40 times,” Mr Pritchard said.
Macarron briefly walked away when their friend intervened, but went straight back to the unconscious man, hitting him a few more times to the head before leaving the scene on Carrs Road.
Eyewitnesses described seeing the ‘lifeless’ man on the ground after the attack.
The man was rushed to Salford Royal Hospital, and was reported as vomiting as well as suffering from a swelling to his right eye. He was treated for a fractured eye socket and a broken nose, and was briefly given breathing tubes.
He had not submitted a statement to the police because he was ‘scared’ of Macarron, the court heard.
Macarron was said to have numerous previous convictions, though none of which were for violence.
Robert Elias, defending, said his client took a ‘boxing stance’, and that the fight went on for as long as an amateur boxing match.
“The were both obviously drunk, you can tell from their gait,” he said
“The defendant fully accepts losing self control when the victim was on the ground and repeatedly hitting him to both sides of the head with swinging punches when he seemed unconscious and coming back for more after his friend intervened.”
He added that Macarron does not have previous convictions for violence.
The judge, Recorder Michael Blakey said: “Initially it seems to me that the victim was backing away, until he had no other option than to stand up and fight.
“You were bouncing around like a pro boxer, you knew what you were doing. You rained upon him savage beatings to his head and face. He did not and was not able to defend himself.
“You were very lucky the injuries, although serious, were not fatal. This was a dreadful attack by you and imprisonment is inevitable.”
Macarron, of Ward Street, Heaviley, was jailed for three years.
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