Daily Mail
February 15, 2015
A promising university student fractured a 19-year-old’s skull with a single punch after the victim asked him if he had a cigarette lighter in a McDonald’s restaurant, a court heard.
Caine Inyanga, 19, was spared jail after he floored Adam Turner in the violent early morning attack that left the tool maker unconscious on the ground.
Turner, also aged 19, approached Inyanga in the early hours of the morning in McDonald’s in Middlesbrough, Teesside, and asked if he had a cigarette lighter.
After receiving no response from the chemical engineering student the victim turned to Inyanga’s female companion and asked the same question.
Inyanga, who had been drinking and taking drugs, demanded Mr Turner and his friend ‘get outside now,’ said prosecutor Emma Atkinson.
The pair made it clear they did not want to fight, but he punched both of them, Teesside Crown Court heard.
The blow to Mr Turner caused him to fall to the floor and he lost consciousness. As a result of the attack he has suffered hearing loss and tinnitus.
Inyanga ran away from the fast food restaurant on October 10 last year, but later handed himself in.