Pictured: Pensioner, 75, who died after having 'every bone in his face broken' while confronting youth vandalising car outside his home
Daily MailThis is the first picture of a pensioner who died after having every bone in his face broken during a 'violent assault' as he allegedly tried to stop a vandal attacking a car. Former bricklayer Anthony Jacob, 75, stepped out of his home in Weymouth, Dorset to confront a man said to have been damaging a vehicle on Abbotsbury Road, on the western side of the town, at around 8.12pm on December 10. Former bricklayer Anthony Jacob, 75, died after he was assaulted in the street as he confronted an alleged vandal Police on the scene in Abbotsbury Road on December 10 after the attack. Mr Jacob was airlifted to hospital Police officers erect a forensics tent around a Volkswagen Golf on Abbotsbury Road in Weymouth on December 11 A forensic scene of crime officer on Abbotsbury Road following the attack on Mr Jacob. Paying tribute ahead of his funeral on Friday, Mr Jacob's family said he had been 'well known and highly respected' in Weymouth, the town he had called home all his life.
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Pensioner, 75, dies after 'every bone in his face broken' while tackling a youth vandalising a car - as man, 19, is charged
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