A man has been jailed after a fight in a busy street in the middle of the afternoon.
Bignall’s kick was said to have left a foot mark on the victim’s chest with him also suffering cuts and bruises but he did not want to make a complaint.
Bignall, aged 30, was said to have been drinking for 24 hours in the lead-up to the fight despite being subject to an alcohol ban.
Bignall admitted an offence of provoking behaviour and was sentenced to 10 weeks’ custody.
But the offence put Bignall in breach of a suspended sentence and High Bailiff Jayne Hughes activated this adding another 20 weeks to his sentence, bringing the total to 30 weeks.
The court heard that he has spent 32 days on remand.
Defence advocate David Clegg urged the court to impose a community service order which had been recommended by a probation report.
Mr Clegg said that Bignall had been working well with probation during his suspended sentence supervision order.
’If ever there was a case of the devil making work for idle hands Mr Bignall is it,’ said the advocate.
’His explanation is that it was a play fight gone wrong. But he does accept it was not acceptable. He also appreciates the other party is someone he does not associate well with.
’They have been living in the same building and he has spoken to the landlord about different accommodation. He has done that entirely off his own bat. Mr Bignall wants to apologise to the court and anyone who witnessed what was going on.’
The court heard that Bignall is still paying a £970 fine from January, of which £710 remains outstanding. High Bailiff Mrs Hughes said he had a very poor history of complying with court orders.
She told Bignall: ’This was violence in the middle of the day. You pushed him to the floor, kicked him and left a foot mark on his chest.
’People clearly would have been distressed. At the time you were subject to a suspended sentence for indecent assault and criminal damage.
’You were told of the likely consequences of committing further offences. You nonetheless continued to offend, in alcohol, while subject to a licensing ban.’
Mrs Hughes discharged the suspended sentence supervision order and ordered Bignall to pay his outstanding fine forthwith or face 40 days in prison, to run concurrently to the sentence.
A licensing ban remains in force until January.