Man sentenced to 14 years in prison for attack on gay flatmate

Connor Huntley who was attacked with a claw hammer by his house mate Joseph Williams (Picture: PA)

The man who inflicted these terrible head injuries on his gay flatmate with a claw hammer has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. Connor Huntley was 18 when he was attacked by Catholic Joseph Williams last year while he was sleeping at home in Margate, Kent.

The teenager managed to survive despite suffering ‘life changing’ injuries.

Joseph Williams was sentenced to 14 years for inflicting these injuries (Picture: PA)

During sentencing at the Old Bailey, judge Jeremy Donne QC told Williams: ‘On May 28, 2013 you picked up a hammer, went into the bedroom of your sleeping flatmate and brought it down two times on his head.

‘Not only did it fracture his skull but it was embedded in his brain.

‘The injuries suffered by Connor Huntley were little short of catastrophic. They were life-changing.

X-ray of Connor Huntley after the attack (Picture: PA)

‘He will be never be able to enjoy all the things that young people enjoy doing.’

Mr Huntley suffers from epilepsy and has problems moving his body following the attack.

Mr Williams will serve his sentence in a high security hospital until he is deemed fit to leave after the court found he had been suffering mental health issues at the time of the attack.