Overview
- Rafferty, 21, was sentenced for assault causing harm to David Druzinec after pleading guilty, with a six-year headline sentence reduced to four years and suspended in full.
- Conditions require good behaviour, compliance with Probation Service directions and attendance at recommended courses for 12 months, with any breach activating the four-year prison term.
- Rafferty was acquitted last month of the murder of Josip Strok, while co-accused Mark Lee, 44, and Anthony Delappe, 19, were convicted of Strok's murder and are serving life sentences.
- Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring said Rafferty was the least culpable, acted on misinformation from Lee, and that his cannabis use influenced his involvement.
- Court evidence described Lee punching and stamping on Strok and Delappe striking him with a plastic pickaxe handle, while Rafferty struck with a half-crutch, and CCTV showed Druzinec was attacked from behind.