A County Durham man left a passerby at a railway station with a fractured skull after punching him in a totally unprovoked attack.

Connor Walker appeared to take exception to something the man said while at York station on September 6 and threw a single punch at his face.

The victim suffered a bleed to the brain and had to spend a week in hospital, Teesside Crown Court heard on Thursday (November 20), and is still suffering with headaches and tiredness.

Walker, of Park Road in South Moor, Stanley, admitted a single count of inflicting grievous bodily harm. The 29-year-old previously denied wounding with intent and was due to stand trial in February, but the prosecution accepted his guilty plea to the slightly lesser charge.

The court heard he has previous convictions for violence, incl

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