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Two men have been jailed following an unprovoked attack which left a young soldier blind in one eye and his friend with permanent scarring to his face.
Alan Stafford and his step-brother, Lee, confronted soldier Charlie McAteer and his friends as they were enjoying a night out in the city centre while he was on leave.
Alan Stafford (26), of Overpark Avenue, Braunstone, Leicester, "floored" Mr McAteer with a punch, leaving him with a fractured jaw and eye socket.
He was jailed for 23 months after admitting inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Leicester Crown Court heard the 20-year-old victim, who had a promising military career ahead of him, has been left blind in one eye and is to be medically discharged from the Royal Engineers.
Lee Stafford (31), of Penney Close, Wigston, punched Mr McAteer's friend, causing a cut eyebrow which has left permanent scarring. He was jailed for 12 months after admitting actual bodily harm.
Judge John Pini told Alan Stafford: "It was unprovoked violence that was catastrophic for Charles McAteer.
"He's got permanent impairment of vision and it's unlikely he will ever recover reading vision in that eye.
"He's had three operations and had to have a needle, extremely painfully, inserted into an eyeball in the course of his treatment.
"He joined the Army hoping for a long career and is now to be discharged. He's lost his employment, all because of what you did to him. He says it has totally ruined his life."
The judge told Lee Stafford the attack on Mr McAteer's friend had had devastating psychological effects on his victim, worsening his anxiety problems.
Judge Pini said: "This highlights the prevalence of late- night drunken violence on the streets of our cities.
"You were given a warning by the police before this, which you ignored."
Leicester Crown Court heard the step-brothers were seeking trouble on the night of the attack, which happened at 3am on November 2.
Both were overheard drunkenly planning a random attack and the police gave them a dispersal notice.
Abigail Joyce, prosecuting, said Lee Stafford, who has numerous previous convictions for assaults, gave the police a false name when given a dispersal notice – and shoved it down a drain.
The two groups encountered each other in High Street, as Mr McAteer and his friends were in high spirits, play-fighting in the street, with "nothing untoward" going on, Miss Joyce told the court.
She said Mr McAteer, 20, joined the Army at 17 and now faces leaving it partially sighted.
"He doesn't know when he'll be discharged, but he knows it's coming and he doesn't know if his right eye will ever be of any use," she said.
David Lee, mitigating for Alan Stafford, an unemployed carpenter, said: "The serious injury wasn't intended. It had far greater consequences than anyone thought."
Daniel Hallworth, representing Lee Stafford, said: "He reacted impulsively and has written a letter saying he's deeply sorry. Alcohol clearly played a part."
Family's anguish: 'Charlie will suffer the consequences for the rest of his life'Charlie McAteer's mother, Carole, released this statement after the sentencing:
Whilst we, as a family, are grateful to the criminal justice system which has ensured that Alan Stafford is currently serving a prison sentence, we are disappointed that the term in no way reflects his actions or the consequences of those actions.
Charlie has not only suffered several injuries, many medical examinations in London, Birmingham and Germany, three eye operations and at least two more yet to be undergone, but also the loss of a career and the job he loves.
Currently facing medical discharge from the Royal Engineers due to the loss of sight in his right eye, Charlie now has to complete further training and secure alternative employment, all due to the drunken actions of a thug. Charlie will suffer the consequences for the rest of his life whilst Stafford is likely to serve less than one year in prison and this is wholly inadequate as a punishment for his crime.
I sincerely hope Stafford uses this time to reflect upon his actions and to determine to change his ways for the better. Should he not choose this path, then he will remain the poorer person.
Passport backlog: Home Office phone call saves Leicester woman's Ibiza holiday
A woman's first holiday abroad has been saved following a last-minute intervention by a top Government official.
Shannon Johnstone, of Prospect Hill, Highfields, Leicester, was caught up in the passport chaos that has seen a backlog of almost 100,000 applications across the country.
The 20-year-old, who applied for her first passport eight weeks ago in readiness for a trip to Ibiza with three friends today, encountered a series of last minute delays which put the longed-for trip in severe doubt.
But a call to MP Keith Vaz's Leicester East constituency office on Saturday – as she waited in vain in Durham for her passport to be printed – saved the day.
Mr Vaz, who is chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, called Home Secretary Theresa May's office.
Her private secretary then called the passport office in Durham and Shannon's passport was issued – with an apology – shortly afterwards.
Shannon's mum, Betty, said: "Shannon was on the phone to me from Durham and was very upset about what was going on. She had gone back to the office several times, but it still wasn't ready.
"She had worked from 11.30 on Friday night until 4.30 on Saturday morning and then had to get a train she couldn't afford to Durham, only to find her passport wasn't ready as promised.
"I called Mr Vaz's emergency contact number. Mr Vaz rang her and told her he had spoken to the Home Secretary's office and she was called by the passport office saying she would get her passport that day after all."
Shannon, who works at a city centre nightclub, had previously called the passport office when her passport failed to materialise – even though she had paid extra for a faster return service.
She was told she would need to go for an identification interview in Derby just five days before her week-long trip.
But there she was told her passport still was not ready, and was then advised to travel to an office in Durham to pick it up on Saturday.
Patsy McKnight, grandmother of 20-year-old Charlotte McKnight, who is also going on the trip, said: "When she went for her interview, the computers were down.
"She was told she would have to ring the Glasgow office and they told her it would be printed and available for collection in Durham.
"It was too late to get there on Friday so she went on Saturday. They told her at 1pm it wouldn't be ready that day."
Mr Vaz is now set to raise Shannon's case with Paul Pugh, the head of the passport office, who will appear before his committee tomorrow to explain delays which have seen thousands of people's holiday and other travel plans put in jeopardy.
Mr Vaz said: "I spoke to Shannon, who was standing outside the passport office in Durham saying she had been told to go there to collect her passport but had been turned away.
"I rang the Home Secretary and spoke to her private secretary to tell them about Shannon's problem. The private secretary rang me back to let me know there had been a mistake and that Shannon had been given her passport, which was very good of them.
"I am extremely grateful to the Home Office for turning this round so quickly, but I am concerned there may be many other people not able to get their passports. I am planning to raise this case at the meeting with the head of passport office on Tuesday.
"I am very pleased to have helped and I hope she has an enjoyable holiday. Her plight has enabled us to look at the system, which is clearly not working."
Prime Minister David Cameron apologised for the shambles on Thursday as emergency measures were brought in to tackle the backlog, thought to have affected up to 100,000 people.
Leicester City: The Turk's Head was the inn place to be...
Leicester City's official historian John Hutchinson continues his series revisiting those sites in Leicester which were significant in the history of the club. Today, as we walk past these sites, we are often unaware of the part these places played in the history of the club.
The Turk's HeadFor well over 30 years, the Turk's Head (picture 1), opposite the prison gates, was the best known sports bar in Leicester.
Its landlord was Johnny Duncan (picture 2), Leicester City's captain in the glorious 1920s and the club's manager for the 1949 FA Cup final.
Taking over the pub in 1930 prematurely ended Johnny's distinguished playing career – the club refused him permission to be a publican.
When he ignored them, the directors prevented him from playing football for anyone else.
Johnny's daughter, Jenny Blackhurst, told me that she remembers serving drinks to City, Tigers and County players.
The pub was also popular with local bookies and with media people such as John Arlott, David Coleman and Jimmy Hill.
Matt Busby and the Arsenal legend Alex James (who made his Scottish international debut alongside Johnny in 1925) also drank there.
City directors, like Sid Needham, and ex-players such as Arthur Chandler, were also customers.
All of these contacts meant that Johnny always had FA Cup final tickets.
From 1949 until 1966, it was a Duncan family ritual to travel by car to Wembley, furnished with roast pork rolls and bottles of lager.
The Turk's Head dated from the 1770s. It had a central bar, two smoke rooms and a tap room.
Regulars had their own tankards and seats. The yard at the back had steps down to Infirmary Road.
To the left of these steps were double doors through which barrels were rolled into the cellar along a passage way under the yard.
Just outside the double door, there was an area which had been used for stage coaches in the pub's early days. This is where Johnny used to park his car.
During the war, the cellar had been used as an air raid shelter.
Johnny was unable to get back to the pub on one of the nights that Leicester was bombed, and the customers already in the pub sold the beer for him.
Johnny sadly died in May 1966, not long before the family had decided to leave the pub.
The pub was demolished in the 1970s. A car park for the Infirmary now stands on the site (picture 3).
In 1935, after playing a club record 528 league games for City, war hero Adam Black (picture 4) paid £800 (£40,000 in today's values) for a newsagent and tobacconist shop in Wilberforce Road, which is off Upperton Road, not far from Filbert Street.
Adam's final playing contract had expired on May 4, 1935. He was paid £8 per week for first-team appearances and £6 for the close season.
Adam's grandson, Allister, still possesses a legal document (picture 5) which indicates that Adam paid Philip Matthews £800 for the "business of newsagent... also stock, fixtures, fittings and all moneys owing to me for papers etc at the time of taking over which was May 6, 1935."
A sum of £800 was about two years' wages for Adam, but he had been awarded three benefit games by the club during his career. Allister's brother, Andrew, told me he had lived at the shop with parents until he was about five. The living quarters were separated from the shop by a curtain.
The shop was very traditional, dark and musty. Its catchment area was between Upperton Road and Braunstone Gate.
Many customers were railway men from the nearby Great Central goods depot and engine sheds. One of them, "Uncle Charlie," gave a model Canadian Pacific locomotive to young Andrew.
One of the items sold by Adam (seen in his shop in picture 6) were silk cigarette cards.
Andrew recalled that his father and uncle got into trouble with Adam as youngsters by removing the threads from these cards.
They were caught after Adam had been alerted to this by customers' complaints.
Adam also carried a large stock of fireworks for bonfire night. He stacked them alongside boxes of matches! The family always had the best fireworks in the neighbourhood.
Adam, who was still delivering papers into his seventies, died in 1981. His shop is now a private residence (picture 7). An old Picture Post advert is still visible on the wall.
When Leicester City was re-formed in 1919, following the demise of Leicester Fosse, one of the founder directors of the new club was Arthur Needham.
Whetstone-born Arthur made his money from the boot and shoe industry, which was dominant in Leicester in the early years of the last century.
His business, founded in 1911, was called the Leicester Castor Sole Company Factory. His factory was in Humberstone Gate (picture 8). Both Arthur and his son Sydney, who later ran the firm, were directors at Filbert Street for more than 60 years. The profits generated by the business helped to finance City for several decades.
Arthur's granddaughter, Jane Palmer, possesses a unique set of photographs of the Humberstone Road factory.
These pictures are now in the club's digital archive.
They include images of the workers involved in various manufacturing processes in the factory (picture 9) as well as a grainy picture, taken in the 1920s, of the firm's van outside the factory (picture 10).
Arthur's other business interests included owning the Upperton Road Garage and having a major shareholding in Eatough's Shoe factory at Earl Shilton.
A keen sportsman, Arthur won a medal for shooting at Bisley and was a life member of Leicestershire County Cricket Club.
He was also a patron of boxing. His friend Reggie Meen was British heavyweight champion in 1931-2.
Reggie often trained at Peckleton Manor, the Needham family home.
Arthur died in 1956, by which time his son Sidney was a well-established member of the City board.
Today, the Nottingham Oddfellows Working Men's Club stands on the site (picture 11).