A HOMOPHOBIC thug who launched a savage attack on a gay couple and smashed a man in the face with a pool ball so that he feared he was blind in one eye is now behind bars. Brandon Taylor is now serving an extended sentence after he was ruled to be a dangerous offender after a string of violent offences in Worcester and Malvern, including an attack which left a gay couple nursing broken bones in a trauma unit. The 19-year-old was handed a nine and a half year prison sentence at Worcester Crown Court on Friday after attacks which also included a street robbery, biting a man at McDonald’s in Worcester city centre and biting a city police officer.