Overview

• Mckenzie Dicicco, 22, was sentenced to six years and eight months after pleading guilty to manslaughter for the December assault on James Hitchcock.
• Recorder of Leeds Judge Guy Kearl KC described the blow as a “cowardly, deliberate and vicious” attack delivered to a man who could not defend himself.
• Court evidence showed Dicicco, intoxicated earlier and ejected from a bar, ran across York station concourse to strike Hitchcock at a Burger King outlet.
• James Hitchcock, 32, a semi-professional goalkeeper and father, sustained a fatal head injury and died in hospital three days after the unprovoked punch.
• Hitchcock’s family delivered personal impact statements in court and the regional football league has renamed its cup competition in his honour.