Ex-pupil jailed for beating teacher so badly his daughter didn’t recognise him

A teenager has been jailed for five years for beating his former teacher so badly that a surgeon said his face looked like a packet of "stamped on cornflakes".

The assault carried out by Yob Lucas Mikoliunas, 18, on Christian Dawson, 40, was so bad that Dawson's young daughter didn't ecognize him.

The English and Music teacher suffered a crushed nose, shattered cheekbones and eye sockets and his jaw needed realigning.

The pain was "excruciating", Hull Crown Court heard. Surgeons had to lift his facial structure off his face and re-set it with wires, rods and pins and had to have his lips being severed. The teacher had to sign a consent form before surgery and was warned when he woke up he might be blind.

A year has passed since the violent assault and Dawson is still unable to smile at his daughter, five-year-old Audrey.

Yob Mikoliunas (pictured above) attacked his former teacher because of his "born hatred for his old school", Hull Crown Court was told. Mikoliunas, who was 17 at the time of the attack, had spotted the teacher in a takeaway in Hull and then waited until he was alone to launch his attack at around 2am.

Mikoliunas had left school with no GCSEs and was already on police bail for stealing alcohol and causing £32,000 of damage during a burglary at a Hull cafe when he attacked Mr Dawson.

Mikoliunas was convicted of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after a one-day trial at Hull Youth Court.

Jailing Mikoliunas for five years, Recorder Tim Roberts, QC, told him: "This attack was born out of hatred for your old school. You had an unenviable reputation and seeing a teacher from your old school and one you did not like. You caused a member of the public a gratuitous injury and you are a danger."