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A drug dealer was unmasked when police went to arrest him over a nightclub attack . Anthony Mason was caught on CCTV setting upon a stranger in the nightspot.
And when officers investigating the incident, which saw the 53-year-old raining blows on his victim, when to arrest him, they discovered the "hallmarks of a cannabis farm".
The details emerged today, September 25, 2025, when Mason appeared in the dock to be sentenced over the incidents, which took place in 2022 and 2023 .
Liverpool Echo reports he limped into Liverpool Crown Court with the aid of his friends and a security guard, and appeared to struggle to stand as he made his way into the docks, hunched over, with a cane in one hand.
The first incident occurred on May 7, 2022. CCTV from withi