Overview
- Judge Charlotte Crangle sentenced Dylan Dellot at Liverpool Crown Court after an assault outside the Black Horse pub on County Road last December.
- Dellot struck Patrick Gibbons in the face with a Carling glass and then delivered at least seven punches, leaving him unconscious on the pavement.
- Gibbons suffered a severe brain bleed, underwent life‑saving surgery at the Walton Centre, and remains in complex rehabilitation with profound long‑term disabilities.
- The court said the term also reflected a breach of a suspended sentence and noted Dellot’s prior convictions for violence and carrying a weapon.
- Defense mitigation cited remorse, mental‑health issues and claimed initial self‑defense, but the judge pointed to CCTV and his drug and alcohol use as matters of choice.