Karl Roberts: jailed for inflicting GBH at a Bury nightclub

A MAN who fractured a Suffolk-based airman’s cheekbone in an unprovoked attack in a nightclub has been jailed for 30 months.

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Witnesses to the late-night attack in Vision Nightclub, Bury St Edmunds, described the force of the blow as being “10/10” and said it had been so hard that it had knocked Wayne Jenkins sideways, Ipswich Crown Court heard.

Before the court was Karl Roberts, 26, of St George’s Road, Stowlangtoft, who admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm on Mr Jenkins on September 23 last year and an offence of driving while disqualified on September 24.

Jailing Roberts for 30 months and banning him from driving for two years Recorder Jane Humphryes described the attack on Mr Jenkins as unprovoked. “You punched him exceedingly hard,” she said.

She said that witnesses described seeing something in Roberts’ hand before the attack and it was accepted it was probably a gold sovereign ring Roberts had been wearing.

Michael Crimp, prosecuting, told the court that on the night in question Mr Jenkins had been out socialising with colleagues and had gone to the Vision Nightclub.

He had said hello to a woman on the dancefloor but had left her alone after she said she was with her boyfriend.

Mr Jenkins had gone outside to a smoking area and had been out there for about 20 minutes when he was punched on his cheek from behind by Roberts.

Guy Ayers, for Roberts, said his client had been upset at what he perceived to be inappropriate behaviour by Mr Jenkins to a woman he knew on the dancefloor.

He said Roberts recognised he had a problem with alcohol and had been having counselling.

Mr Ayers said that following the attack on Mr Jenkins, Roberts had been blinded in one eye in an unrelated incident. “He knows what it is like to be on the receiving end,” said Mr Ayers.

He said Roberts had been wearing a gold sovereign ring when he struck Mr Jenkins and had not been using a weapon.