A drunk teenage boy who tried to kill a man in a "vicious, ferocious and sustained attack" which left the victim disabled has been detained for 11 years.

Tyler Ian Craig Fielding, 16, kicked and stamped on Victor King's head, leaving him lying unconscious in a pool of blood.

Such was the force of Fielding's stamping that he left a footprint on his victim's face.

In December, a jury at Truro Crown Court found him guilty of the attempted murder of the 51-year-old, who now uses a wheelchair and has brain damage.

After an application by the Western Morning News, judge Christopher Elwen lifted an order protecting the identity of Fielding, who will spend 11 years at a young offenders institution.

Due to the savagery of the attack on the evening of May 15 last year in Redruth town centre, Mr King could not remember the assault and did not attend the trial.

Yesterday he was wheeled into court by members of his family.

During the trial CCTV images of an initial assault were shown of Fielding, who had also smoked cannabis, kicking and punching Mr King as he sat on a bench in Fore Street in the West Cornwall town.

The teenager was with a group of girls, including his girlfriend. But it was during a second attack off-camera in nearby Alma Place that he subjected his victim to the worst violence.

Fielding's defence team had argued this attack lasted less than 30 seconds.

Yesterday, Judge Elwen said: "This was a vicious, ferocious, short-in-time but sustained and unprovoked attack on Mr King, involving punching and kicking.

"You stamped upon him. You left him unconscious and hardly breathing. Both of his eye sockets were broken and his voice box was fractured.

"To put it another way, his life is now ruined."

During police interview, Fielding claimed that earlier in the evening Mr King had barged into his girlfriend and later in the street had hurled an insult at her. He said he approached Mr King on the bench to ask him why he had insulted the girl.

Fielding then admitted attacking Mr King.

While he denied trying to kill him, he admitted grievous bodily harm.

Judge Elwen said had it not been for the prompt actions of a paramedic who arrived at the scene and inserted a tube to help him breathe, Mr King would have died.

The court heard that at the time of the attack Fielding was already the subject of a youth rehabilitation order for burglary and theft committed in his home town of Rochdale, Lancashire. He later moved to Cornwall to be with his girlfriend and at the time of the attack he was living at Tolcarne Street, Camborne.

Robert Linford, defending, said Fielding was remorseful for the harm he had caused Mr King and was "shocked" by his own actions.

He said: "Through me Tyler apologises to Mr King for the harm he has done."

Mr Linford described Fielding as "vulnerable" and said he had suffered a violent childhood.

Outside the courtroom, Mr King wept as his family hugged and kissed him.

His wife Sharon said while the family were happy with the sentence, their lives had been "torn apart" by Fielding's actions.

She said: "Justice has been done. We are pleased with the sentence, but my husband's sentence will never be over.

"Our lives will never be the same again because of what Fielding did that night."