Businessman smashed drinker’s eye socket

An Italian businessman fractured a drinker’s cheekbone and eye socket in a fracas at a  cocktail club, a court heard. Marco Maiocchi, 37, allegedly punched Connor Brennan without warning in Bar Soho on Old Compton Street in London’s West End on 7 February last year. Mr Brennan had gone out with his partner Rhian Desouza to celebrate a friend’s birthday and had drunk up to six pints when he was struck, it is said. Minutes before the incident Miss Desouza…