Student jailed for unprovoked attack that left another with 18 metal plates in his skull

The victim said: “I was used as a human punching bag, battered for entertainment and fun - for a high.”

Imposing three years in prison with one year suspended on Alan Carr at Galway Circuit Criminal Court, Judge Rory McCabe said an immediate custodial sentence was warranted to reflect the gravity of the violent assault. File photo

Eighteen titanium plates hold a medical student’s facial bones in place since he was kicked at full force into the side of his head during an unprovoked attack in a fast-food restaurant.

The attacker, GMIT engineering student Alan Carr (aged 20), from Thullanoone, Moycullen, Galway, was captured on CCTV "parading" through a Supermac’s outlet at Cross Street, Galway, "like a boxer who had just won a fight" leaving his victim unconscious on the floor in a pool of his own blood.