A 96-year-old D-Day veteran who suffered multiple skull fractures after a “barbaric” attack by a hammer-wielding cold caller has stoically played down his ordeal, saying: “Worse things happen at sea.”
Jim Booth was left for dead in a pool of his own blood on the living room floor of his Taunton home after answering the door to a bogus builder.
Joseph Isaacs has been given a 20-year extended sentence at Taunton Crown Court for attempting to bludgeon Mr Booth to death with a claw hammer.
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