Jail for thug who left stranger with serious brain injury

A Portuguese thug who savagely attacked a stranger in the mistaken belief he had run his father over with a van has been jailed for five and a half years. Alex Afonso, 21, yelled ‘kill him’ as he laid into fellow compatriot Luis Brito near Tulse Hill station in southwest London on 31 March last year. His dad Fernando Afonso, 45, held Mr Brito by the jacket, as his son punched him, kneed him in the face and dragged him…