A YOUTH court hearing for an 11-year-old boy charged with assault has been adjourned until September 20.

The boy was charged after an alleged attack in August which half-blinded a 10-year-old in west Wiltshire.

Joshua Huggins, from Windsor Drive, Westbury, may not be able to go back to school for another year despite a lengthy operation.

Surgeons managed to save his right eye but told his mum, Joanne Hewlett, he will probably never see out of it again.