暴力／激しさ-obsessed 攻撃者 愛称d 'The Madman' who killed pubgoer with one punch says he wants to 会合，会う 犠牲者's family to apologise after 'turning his life around' in 刑務所，拘置所

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A 暴力／激しさ-obsessed 攻撃者 who was 愛称d 'The Madman' has said he wants to 会合，会う with the family of the man he killed with one punch to apologise after?'turning his life around' in 刑務所，拘置所.

Brett Gleeson, 40, killed Adam Nightingale, 28, に引き続いて a 列／漕ぐ／騒動 over a spilt drink at the Mucky Duck pub in Rochdale on March 25, 2015.

The career 犯罪の, who had 41 有罪の判決s 含むing a 強盗?where he stole £2 from a man at knifepoint, was 宣告，判決d?to four years in 刑務所，拘置所 and five years in a psychiatric 区 for 過失致死.??

On the night of the 出来事/事件, Gleeson ignored his girlfriend's 嘆願 to 静める 負かす／撃墜する and followed Mr Nightingale out of the pub に引き続いて the 列／漕ぐ／騒動.

The machete and gun-obsessed 凶漢 punched him hard in the 長，率いる from behind as he spoke to a taxi driver, 原因（となる）ing?Mr Nightingale to 落ちる and 攻撃する，衝突する his 長，率いる on a 静止している car.

Gun-obsessed 凶漢?Brett Gleeson (pictured), 40, has said he wants to 会合，会う with the family of the man he killed with one punch to apologise

He killed Adam Nightingale (pictured), 28, に引き続いて a 列／漕ぐ／騒動 over a spilt drink at the Mucky Duck pub in Rochdale on March 25, 2015

The career 犯罪の, (left, today and 権利, in photos taken before he was 刑務所，拘置所d) who had 41 有罪の判決s 含むing a 強盗 where he stole £2 from a man at knifepoint, was 宣告，判決d to four years in 刑務所，拘置所 and five years in a psychiatric 区 for 過失致死

Mr Nightingale,?who worked for an 工学 会社／堅い, was left on the pavement, before 結局 dying in hospital a few hours later.

But now father-of-one Gleeson?has 変えるd to Islam and said he wants to?fully 'repent' for the 殺人，大当り that he committed 予定 to his own 'bravado'.

He wants to 会合，会う his 犠牲者's family to 申し込む／申し出 his 陳謝s and said he would 'do anything he could' to help them.?

Gleeson said: 'I am 荒廃させるd by what happened and feel bad every day.

'I felt like I was in the depths of hell, it really broke my heart, now I want to try and give someth ing 支援する to the world.'

After the attack, Gleeson, who was 30 at the time, fled the area, but was 逮捕（する）d at his flat at around 3am.

In a 犠牲者 衝撃 声明 the Mr Nightingale's (pictured) mother Tina said: 'He was the nicest guy you could ever 会合，会う, he would do anything for anyone. We are all 荒廃させるd that he has been taken away from us'

Police 逮捕（する）d him and took him to Central Park police 駅／配置する in Manchester where he was then 認めるd technical 保釈（金） and sectioned.

Gleeson, who 苦しむs from schizophrenia, was kept in hospital under psychiatric evaluation for six weeks before 存在 宣告，判決d to a six-year 延長するd determinate 宣告，判決, with the 裁判官 述べるing his 活動／戦闘s as '臆病な／卑劣な attack.'

Gleeson, from Rochdale, said: 'I still don't know why I did it, I had been on a five-day bender, I think it was bravado.

'It haunts me to this day, it's very difficult to get over still.

'I would do anything that Adam's family 手配中の，お尋ね者 - if it would help them then I would 会合，会う them - I just pray every day for them and for Adam.'

While in 刑務所，拘置所, Gleeson lost 保護／拘留 of his child and developed an 'extreme' spice habit.

He had stints in HMP Forest Bank, Strangeways 刑務所，拘置所, Manchester, Wyemott 刑務所，拘置所, Lancashire, Preston 刑務所，拘置所, and Buckley Hall 刑務所，拘置所 and on two occasions he was stabbed.

In total he served six years of an 延長するd, Determinate 宣告，判決 which ended in 2021, though he was sectioned until 2024 予定 to his mental health.

Gleeson gave himself his 'Madman' 愛称 予定 to his love of 死に至らしめる武器s

Gleeson had stints in HMP Forest Bank, Strangeways 刑務所，拘置所, Manchester, Wyemott 刑務所，拘置所, Lancashire, Preston 刑務所，拘置所, and Buckley Hall 刑務所，拘置所 and on two occasions he was stabbed?

In one instance, he was stabbed in 天罰 by Liverpool fans in his 封鎖する after a football match in which a Liverpool fan was stabbed in Turkey.

Gleeson, who 変えるd to Islam while inside, said inmates 手配中の，お尋ね者 him stabbed in 復讐 'as he was イスラム教徒, and Turkey is a イスラム教徒 country.'

In a second instance, he went to ask a 独房 隣人 for some sugar, when an inmate, 怒り／怒るd by the request （機の）カム running over, told Gleeson to get in his 独房 and attacked him with a cup with a spike 大（公）使館員d to it.

Gleeson had to have half his ear sewn 支援する on.

After three years on the inside, Gleeson said he began to try and sort himself out.

He began reading lots of 調書をとる／予約するs, started meditating, and 設立する 宗教.

'It started making me a better person, I think,' he said.

He says he left all 暴力／激しさ behind and instead focussed on educating himself, bec oming a devout イスラム教徒, and 一般に trying to atone for the sins of his past.

Gleeson was 解放（する）d in 2021, and now volunteers at the 救済 Army while he also creates 非難する music in his 解放する／自由な time.

'It's really changed my life, I feel as though I've left my past life behind me,' he 追加するd.

に引き続いて the 過失致死, Manchester 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所 heard how the career 犯罪の's life of 暴力／激しさ began 老年の 15 when he struck another teen in the 直面する with a rubber mallet

'I've made a lot of stupid mistakes, but nothing that shook me to the 核心 like what happened to Adam.

'I have it on my 良心, he would come 支援する to me every night when I was in bed.

'I am trying to repent and do something 肯定的な to try and （不足などを）補う for what I did that night.'

During the 法廷，裁判所 事例／患者 at Manchester 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所, the 裁判官 heard the 殺人，大当り was 誘発するd b y a 論争 over a spilt drink.

In CCTV （映画の）フィート数 掴むd from the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業, Gleeson was seen 存在 抑制するd by his girlfriend as he tried to 開始する，打ち上げる into an attack on Mr Nightingale, who was 試みる／企てるing to 保護する a woman he had met earlier in the evening.

At one 行う／開催する／段階 Gleeson grabbed a glass to use as a 武器, but this was taken from him by his girlfriend.

In an 試みる／企てる to 静める the argument 負かす／撃墜する, the pub owner asked Mr Nightingale to leave, which he did without fuss or argument.

He walked 負かす／撃墜する the road に向かって a nearby taxi, but was followed out of the pub by Gleeson.

As Mr Nightingale was talking to the taxi driver Gleeson 開始する，打ち上げるd into an attack, punching him hard to the 長，率いる with a 選び出す／独身 blow.

One social マスコミ 地位，任命するs shows the 常習的な 犯罪の 提起する／ポーズをとるing with a 叫び声をあげる mask

Mr Nightingale すぐに 崩壊（する）d and was left unconscious on the pavement. He never 回復するd consciousness and he died in hospital a few hours later at 2.30am.

He had 傷害s to his 直面する, teeth, lips, the 支援する of his hea d and a fractured 注目する，もくろむ socket.?

に引き続いて the 過失致死, Manchester 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所 heard how the career 犯罪の's life of 暴力／激しさ began 老年の 15 when he struck another teen in the 直面する with a rubber mallet.

Gleeson gave himself his 'Madman' 愛称 予定 to his love of 死に至らしめる武器s.?

His Facebook profile in 2015 had the tag: 'Defo Mad' - and showed him with his 直面する covered with a balaclava and a 叫び声をあげる mask 提起する／ポーズをとるing with revolvers and machetes.

One picture shows him in a jacket with the スローガン: 'Up all night - got demons to fight.'?

Gleeson later （人命などを）奪う，主張するd he carried out the unprovoked （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing on?Mr Nightingale while high on コカイン and cannabis so he could brag to pals that he would '支配する' the large 人物／姿／数字 of rugby league fan Mr Nightingale, who was a stranger to the pub.?

In a 犠牲者 衝撃 声明 the 犠牲者's mother Tina said: 'I know he never got in fights. My husband and I never get angry but we are truly angry at what this man did to our son. He was the nicest guy you could ever 会合，会う, he would do anything for anyone. We are all 荒廃させるd that he has been taken away from us. How could anyone forget Adam, the big teddy 耐える.'

Gleeson's 有罪の判決s 含む an 出来事/事件 where he approached a man from behind and 試みる／企てるd to throttle him with a stretch of washing line after he 辞退するd to lend him a cigarette.

In mitigation, his barrister David Toal （人命などを）奪う，主張するd Gleeson had been drinking up to two litres of spirits a day along with コカイン, cannabis and amphetamines. It is believed he hadn't slept for up to two days before the 出来事/事件.?

Mr Toal said: 'The 暴力／激しさ used was a 選び出す／独身 punch with a 握りこぶし, nothing more - he did not even ーするつもりである to 原因（となる） serious 害（を与える）.'?

But 宣告，判決ing 裁判官 Davi d Stockdale QC said: 'The 強襲，強姦 on Mr Nightingale was unjustified and unprovoked.

'You struck him from behind to the 味方する of the 長，率いる. He was not 脅すing you, he was not 申し込む／申し出ing any 暴力／激しさ. In all probability he やめる literally would not have known what 攻撃する，衝突する him.

'This was a 臆病な／卑劣な 強襲，強姦 on an 完全に defenceless man. What 動機づけるd the attack is not （疑いを）晴らす - you were to tell a doctor you 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 論証する you could 支配する Mr Nightingale, who was a large man and a 可能性のある 脅し. Although as a 事柄 of fact he was no 脅し at all to you.'