A Mor­vant pen­sion­er was chopped about the head and then stoned by a man known to him dur­ing an ar­gu­ment on Tues­day.

The 68-year-old vic­tim, of William Av­enue, La­dy Young Road, Mor­vant, was re­port­ed­ly as­sault­ed around 9 am.

Re­ports in­di­cate that the pen­sion­er was stand­ing on the road­way near his home when he was ap­proached by the sus­pect, whom he knows. An ar­gu­ment re­port­ed­ly en­sued, dur­ing which the sus­pect pulled a cut­lass con­cealed in a bag and chopped the vic­tim sev­er­al times about the head, caus­ing him to fall to the ground.