Shocking footage has emerged showing a drunk thug setting fire to a homeless man's blanket during four hours of "torture" in a churchyard.
In the footage, the attacker, 43-year-old Khaled Hassan, took to the homeless man's blanket with a lighter, watching it go up in flames as the man slept under it while on a park bench.
The victim, who is blind in one eye and suffers from mental health problems, was subjected to four hours of torture, and received burns and permanent scars from the ordeal.
![Khaled Hassan was seen setting fire to the homeless man's blankets. Photo / Police](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/T62L4SNAFMUBE2RW7BGRTRIQBI.jpg?auth=1e9d465a3856acbb70781f3f5e5a862015f4233e77b6f0f3c1f765bfd2f5b1bf&width=16&height=10&quality=70&smart=true)
The homeless victim was found bloodied and bruised in St Hilda's Church just outside Newcastle, England, in the early morning of July 9, 2017.