A Bradford disc jockey who used a metal bangle as a knuckleduster to floor a city centre reveller in the street, has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.
Jaspal Gill, 20, of Winchester Gardens, Tyersal, left his victim hospitalised with a depressed fracture of the cheekbone and a cut forehead.
At a hearing at Leeds Crown Court today, prosecutor Andrew Kershaw, told the court how Gill used a heavy, sharp-edged Sikh bangle to punch the man three times in Morley Street, Bradford, in August last year.
He said that Gill, who pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm at an earlier hearing, was spitting and coughing up phlegm in the street when the victim made a passing remark indicating that he found it disgusting.
The men exchanged racist remarks and Gill confronted him and landed three blows. A group of girls intervened and called the police.
Passing the sentence, Judge Paul Hoffman said: “You have a streak of violence running through you.”
In mitigation Gill’s barrister Nadim Bashir said his client had been drinking which “may have contributed to the loss of control”.
He said: “He acted out of character. This was an isolated incident, when he was drunk a red mist came down.”
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