A MAN who shattered a drug addict’s eye socket with a single punch has been cleared of causing grievous bodily harm. Jurors at Reading Crown Court took less than an hour-and-a half to acquit Thomas Etherton on Friday afternoon, January 12. During the trial it emerged that 31-year-old Mr Etherton had arranged a rendezvous at the Shell garage on the A4 Bath Road at Padworth with Trevor Ball, who had agreed to return the phone he had found in the street in Newbury. Mr Etherton offered first £20, then £40 for its return. But, when he arrived, the court heard, he discovered it was broken in pieces….