A man and two teenagers have been locked up for a total of almost ten years for a “mob-handed, feral, attack” on a man aged 60.

The three had been drinking when they punched, kicked and stamped on Michael Carr in Railway Road, Ilkley, last May.

Joseph Steele, 21, of Bolton Road, Addingham, was jailed for four and a half years. John Hewitt, 15, of Springs Terrace, Ilkley, was sentenced to three and a half years’ detention, and Tia Hancock, 17, of Main Street, Burley-in-Wharfedale, was given an 18 month detention and training order.

All three admitted wounding Mr Carr, from Leeds, with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm.

Mr Carr suffered four fractures to his eye socket and temple and five lacerations to his face. He stopped breathing at the scene and had to be given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

Prosecutor Andrew Kershaw said the three had been drinking at a party in the street.

At 4.20am, neighbours were woken by a scream and saw Hancock lying in the road. Steele and Hewitt were kicking Mr Carr as he was prone on the ground. Hewitt dragged him along and both set about him again.

Hancock punched him in the face with both fists and stamped on him until she was pulled off.

Richard Gioserano, for Steele, said he was full of remorse. Now training for work in the building industry, he was involved in charity fund raising and had recently become a father.

David McGonigal, for Hewitt, said he was susceptible to peer pressure and not usually violent.

Michelle Colborn QC, Hancock’s barrister, said Mr Carr pushed her over. The Crown’s claim that she stamped on his head with a stiletto heel was not accepted.

Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC said: “It was a mob-handed, feral, attack on a defenceless man.”

He lifted an order banning publication of the names of Hewitt and Hancock because they are under 18.