A thug shattered the eye socket of a man who was on his first night out in Leicester , leaving him permanently disfigured. Rooney Rubio had been at Waikiki nightclub in Leicester city centre when he carried out the "unjustified" assault.

The incident happened just days after Rubio's 18th birthday in August last year when he punched the young man. The victim, who was 19 at the time, was outside the club at the time of the attack which shattered his eye socket and left him permanently disfigured .

Leicester Crown Court heard on Tuesday (June 3) the fractures to the victim's eye socket, jaw bone and skull were too numerous to count and he underwent seven hours of surgery that was unable to fully repair the damage.

Court heard that Rubio and the victim knew each other through footbal

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