A PEACEMAKER beaten so badly his mother did not recognise him has hit out after the thug responsible had his sentence cut.

Ryan Lee Brogan, 31, left Lee Wright partially sighted in one eye, with multiple fractures of his facial bones, and a broken nose after using a pool cue and a barstool to injure him.

The attack happened in the Brown Cow pub, Livesey Branch Road, Blackburn, in the early hours of April 26 this year, London’s Criminal Appeal Court heard.

Brogan, formerly of Full View, Blackburn, was jailed for eight years on August 5 this year, after pleading guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent at Preston Crown Court on July 8.

Yesterday Lord Justice Hooper, Mr Justice Hedley and Mrs Justice Rafferty, sitting at London’s Criminal Appeal Court, cut that term to one of seven years.

After the case, Mr Wright, 37, who is now classed as partially sighted because of the damage to his left eye, hit out.

He said: “I don’t think that his sentence should have been cut.

“The judge gave him eight years and he should serve eight years.

“It’s a long time but with all the pain and the hassle that I’ve been through, I’m not sure even that is enough.”

The court heard that the pub was just closing when a fight broke out between two drinking groups, one of which contained Brogan, who was celebrating his wife’s birthday.

Mr Wright, who had been chatting with his barmaid girlfriend at the bar, went over to attempt to mollify the fighters, placing himself between the two groups with arms aloft and palms raised.

Brogan, who had himself had a pool cue broken over his head in the fracas, responded by using the broken cue to smash Mr Wright in the face, felling him.

He then struck him with a wooden barstool in the head as he lay on the floor and stamped “with considerable force” on his head, twice.

Mrs Justice Rafferty, giving the court’s judgement, said: “A weapon was not carried to the site of the offence with the intention of injuring the victim.

“This was a man who failed to control his temper and gave way to violence in the midst of turbulence.

“In our view the justice of this case can be met by a sentence of seven years and, to that extent, this appeal succeeds.”