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Cocaine-crazed brute Ryan Mutch punched and stamped on Colin Otty before snapping his neck and leaving him fighting for his life.

Mutch and his girlfriend Natalie Brabin then threw the 45-year-old down the stairs to make it look like an accident.

Mutch, 39, of Acanthus Drive, Stoneycroft, was locked up for 12 and a half years at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday after admitting causing GBH with intent.

Brabin, 34, of Stormont Road, Garston in Liverpool, was handed three years in prison for causing GBH without intent.

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In a heartbreaking statement, Mr Otty told the court: “Imagine waking up in the morning, and that’s it. All I can do is open my eyes. I can’t lift my head off the pillow.

“I am paralysed. The attack has absolutely and completely destroyed my life. My life has been taken from me. I am a prisoner in my body until the day I die.

“I can’t look after myself. I am not who I was. I exist as a brain inside a body that doesn’t work anymore. It is both a life and death sentence for me.”

The court heard the 45-year-old is expected to be a paraplegic for life and will need 24 hour care after the attack on May 18 last year, reports the Liverpool Echo.

(Image: Stephen Richards/ Geograph)

The court heard that Mutch was "off his head” when knocked on Mr Otty’s door completely naked. Words were exchanged, mainly about Mr Otty playing his music loudly.

Mr Otty tried to shut the door but Mutch stuck his foot in and stopped it from closing, before launching the vicious attack.

He was joined by a naked Brabin who continued to punch and stamp on Mr Otty, untill Mutch grabbed his head and applied pressure until his neck broke.

The nude couple then flung him down the stairs to make it look like an accident.

The court heard two other neighbours called police after hearing the commotion like “someone being bounced off the walls”.

Detective Sergeant Gary Stratton of Merseyside Police said: “This was an absolutely horrendous attack which has left the victim paralysed due to the severity of his injuries.

“This will have ultimately changed his life forever, something that we cannot look upon lightly.

“Although this sentence will never give the victim back his old life, I hope this gives him some closure and the opportunity to move forward.”