Brute left his sister bleeding and bruised

A VIOLENT thug has been jailed after a court heard gruesome details of attacks against an elderly man and his own sister.

- By NAOMI CORRIGAN

Aaron Johnstone repeatedly punched his sister at his home in South Bank, leaving blood spattered across several rooms.

The second offence occurred the following year when Johnstone punched, kicked and stamped on an elderly man’s head.

The victim's horrified wife saw her husband laying on the floor as blood pooled around him and thought he had died.

After being arrested for that attack, Johnstone then headbutted a police officer.

On the day of trial, Johnstone pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily relating to the attack on his sister. At sentencing on Tuesday, Teesside Crown Court heard how, at about 4.30pm on August 1, 2023, the sister visited Johnstone's home with a friend.

Fuelled by alcohol and cocaine, Johnstone became angry “out of nowhere” and started saying he “couldn't stand” his sister.

He grabbed her by the hair and dragged her into the living room, telling her she was “going nowhere”.

He then punched her to the head and mouth, grabbed her by the hair again and hit her to the face another four or five times.

“This caused her lip to bleed and blood started covering her clothes,’ said Jonathan Gittins, prosecuting.

“He demanded she get changed due to the bloodstaining and gave her some of his pyjama bottoms and a T-shirt.