Pictured: The battered and bruised face of a burglar who got on the wrong side of a 72-year-old former boxer

Battered and caught out: Gregory McCalium before his encounter with Frank Corti and after, looking ever-so-slightly the worse-for-wear

Gregory McCalium had not realised that 72-year-old victim Frank Corti was a retired boxer.

A knife-wielding burglar got a shock when he attacked a pensioner in his home - a couple of right hooks to the face.

Today, McCalium is beginning a four-and-a-half year prison sentence after a judge told him he 'got what he deserved.'

John Simmons, defending, said: 'Whatever happened that night was a coming together of a situation that had been brewing for some time and in the run-up neither of them covered themselves in glory.

He added: 'Photographs of the defendant showed what looked like a car accident and photos of the scene looked more like a murder scene.'