Ten years for hammer attacker who smashed stranger’s skull

A hammer attacker who left a stranger with a fractured skull in a ‘terrifying and brutal’ random attack in the street has been jailed for ten years. Mark Karnani, 49, was walking home in Spring Road, Croydon, after spending the previous evening at the Arcadia festival in Stratford when he was approached by James Fripp, 42. Fripp stared at Mr Karnani and he crossed the street walk past him, the Old Bailey heard. ‘By this stage Mr Karnani was extremely…