A pub customer, who punched a teenage girl in the face before striking her father over the back of the head with a glass and reigning down a flurry of blows, was jailed for two years and four months today.
Tyre fitter Rhys Henley, 25, (pictured) of Sanderstead Road, Croydon was captured on CCTV striking the victim to the head and body approximately ten times after he was floored by the blow from behind with the glass.
The father-of-two denied, but was convicted by a Croydon Crown Court jury of affray at the John Jackson pub, Woodcote Road, Wallington in September, last year and assaulting the 16 year-old girl.
"Prison it must be and and prison today," Judge Ruth Downing told tearful Henley, whose daughter is recovering in hospital from meningitis.
"I would be failing in my duty if the message did not go out that young men, such as yourself, who go out to public houses and beat people in front of others, face imprisonment.
"Why should people have to sit and watch your conduct.
"It was unprovoked and disproportionate to any slight you may have felt.
"It was premeditated and I found the CCTV images chilling of you walking across the pub, picking up a glass or bottle from a table, and hiding it behind your back.
"You hit him as hard as you could and when he went down you hit him repeatedly. The violence was repeated and not in self-defence."
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