Nightclub attacker awaits sentence
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A Hobart man has been found guilty of an attack at a Salamanca nightclub which left a successful musician with a brain injury.
The Criminal Court in Hobart heard David Justin Lang hit the victim on the head with a glass bottle last December.
After more than three hours deliberation, the jury found 30-year-old David Lang guilty of causing grievous bodily harm.
The court heard Lang hit Simon John Peacock on the side of the head with a bottle during a scuffle at Syrup nightclub.
Mr Peacock suffered a brain injury and severe post traumatic stress disorder which left him unable to work.
The court heard that before the attack, 39-year-old Mr Peacock had been a successful saxophonist who regularly played in bands in Brisbane.
Lang was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on Friday.
