BUSINESSMAN Anastassios Delis was left for dead on a Southampton street and today lies in hospital in a coma.

He cannot breath for himself, he cannot communicate, and will spend the rest of his life needing 24-hour care.

Meanwhile, the former employee who lay in wait to attack the boss who had sacked him just days earlier, will spend little more than a year behind bars for his cowardly crime.

Tahir Karaj, 28, pictured above, was jailed for three years at Southampton Crown Court after pleading guilty to grievous bodily harm, which carries a maximum sentence of five years.

However, Karaj, an Albanian who faces deportation on his release, will only serve half that time in prison.

Read the full story on page five of today's Daily Echo