Robber gets five years for savage attack

A knife-wielding robber who posed as a homeless beggar before battering a partygoer to the ground and emptying his pockets was jailed for five years today (FRI). Daniel Macintyre-Brown, 32, approached Damian Connolly as the victim made his way home alone from celebrating New Zealand’s national day in Shepherds Bush, west London, on 4 February this year. When Mr Connolly offered a five pound note to a woman who was with Macintyre-Brown, the thug punched him six times in the…