‘I popped out for a smoke and got a hole in the head’

A smoker was battered and left ‘with a hole in his head’ after his cousin asked him to pop out for a cigarette, a court heard. Jason Milligan suffered fractures to his nose and jaw after he was allegedly beaten with a screwdriver by 31-year-old Robert Butler at a family gathering in Big Square, Hackney. Butler had asked Mr Milligan ‘if he wanted to pop out with him for a couple of seconds’ on 27 March 2016, the Old Bailey…