what sentence is my freind likely to recieve

[dublinjoe]

my freind has just been charged with attempted murder, the solicitor is convinced it will be dropped to gbh, but he is unsure what section it will be ie 18 or 20 etc, the cirumstances are that he was beaten up by 3 guys and about an hour later he was in a car with his freind and saw one of his attackers, he confronted the man and they got into a fight, he kicked the person in the head a few times and was dragged off him by freinds, the person spent a week in hospital and was on a life support machine for a few days but is now released and making a good recovery, what sort of sentence is my freind facing? he also has no previous crimional record and is out on bail, really worried for him and solicitor says its too early to talk about possible sentences