Six months for coward

A ONE punch coward who almost killed an unsuspecting passer-by on trendy Chapel St in Melbourne will walk free from jail in six months.

Queenslander Ryan Parle was hoping to spend last Christmas with his family on the Gold Coast but instead spent it in Melbourne with a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain.

His cowardly attacker Matthew O’Callaghan spent his first days behind bars last weekend after being jailed for a paltry six months over the December 17, 2016 attack.

The 29-year old pleaded guilty to affray and recklessly causing serious injury to his unsuspecting victim, whom he knocked out cold while he wasn’t looking.

Veteran magistrate Bob Kumar sentenced O’Callaghan on Friday to the brief stint in jail followed by an 18month community corrections order which won’t require him to perform any actual community work.