A MAN has been jailed for a “very unpleasant” attack in a Didcot pub.

Daley Johnson bit a bouncer’s thumb and knocked another man to the ground before “stamping or jumping on him”.

The 23-year-old was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Friday after jurors convicted him of causing wounding with intent and he admitted a charge of actual bodily harm.

Johnson, of Saxons Heath, in Long Wittenham, was in the Wallingford Arms, in Broadway, on May 31 last year when fighting broke out.

Judge Anthony King accepted Johnson did not start the violence, and had one of his own teeth knocked out, but said the defendant “responded in a wholly uncontrolled way”.

He said Johnson knocked Robert Lovelock to the ground and “proceeded to stamp or jump on him, causing cuts in three separate places which required stitches” in what the judge called a “very unpleasant incident”.

The defendant then bit bouncer Michael Millers’ thumb.

Peter Lownds, defending, said of his client: “He lost his temper and there was an wholly disproportionate response from him in the circumstance.

“A response undoubtedly fuelled by the disinhibiting effects caused by a large amount of alcohol consumed by him on that evening.”

Mr Lownds said there was “some history” between Mr Lovelock and Johnson “due to Mr Johnson’s liaison with Mr Lovelock’s estranged partner”.

He added: “His (Johnson’s) evidence in the trial was, in effect, ‘I don’t believe I did that, but I cannot recall what I did or didn’t do because I had so much to drink’.”

Mr Lownds said the self-employed farrier, who has a previous conviction for causing actual bodily harm, is “a man who is kind, honest, gentle, disciplined and full of integrity, not somebody who is generally violent”.

Judge King jailed him for two years.