Philip Darby, of Beech Rise in Kirkby, aged 62 (Image: Merseyside Police)

A thug left his neighbour with his "nose and chin hanging off" after attacking him with a meat cleaver. Philip Darby committed the vicious assault following a long running feud between the two men which had been rumbling for more than seven years.

The victim was left in a coma for weeks as a result of the incident and remained in hospital for more than four months. In spite of leaving his enemy with gruesome injuries which will leave him scarred for life, his assailant later told police: "At the end of the day, I will do the time because he deserved it."

Liverpool Crown Court heard this afternoon, Friday, that Matthew Hilton presented to a security guard at the front entrance of a block of flats on Beech Rise i

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