A man has been jailed for 24 weeks after admitting committing an assault causing grievous bodily harm which broke the victim’s ankle.

Wiktor Andrzej Budzinski threw his victim to the ground after having him in a headlock.

Budzinksi, who is 23, was said to have been part of a mass brawl involving 15 people outside the Bordello nightclub in Douglas which had continued into Victoria Street.

The court heard that Budzinski had also failed to pay any of a £1,000 fine imposed in August 2019 for a drink-driving offence and High Bailiff Jayne Hughes ordered that his sentence be extended for a further eight weeks, to a total of 32 weeks, if that fine was not paid forthwith.

As we reported when we covered a previous court appearance, police were called to Bordello on Loch Promenade in Douglas on July 17 at 3.46am after reports of a mass fight outside.

When officers arrived Budzinski was on top of another man, who was not the assault victim.

After the crowd dispersed CCTV footage was viewed which showed Budzinski grabbing the victim in a headlock before throwing him to the ground which caused him to hit his ankle on the pavement.

The man was later diagnosed with a fractured ankle.

When interviewed Budzinski, who lives in Prince’s Avenue, Douglas, admitted it was him in the CCTV footage.

It was said that there had been difficulties in identifying other people from the CCTV footage due to there being so many people involved in the fracas.

The court heard that Budzinski has previous convictions, for affray in 2017, when he was jailed for 14 weeks, and drink-driving in 2019 for which he was fined £1,000 and banned from driving for two years.

Defence advocate Louise Cooil said that the assault had been one movement that brought the complainant to the ground and had not involved any kick or punch, or a sustained attack on the victim.

Ms Cooil said that Budzinski had walked away straight after the incident and had accepted responsibility.

High Bailiff Jayne Hughes told Budzinski: ’You completely ignored a financial penalty despite being sent a reminder.

’That doesn’t suggest you would co-operate with any community penalty. The injury was a serious one. I accept it wasn’t intentional but it was caused by you throwing the victim to the floor. You should have walked away. I very much suspect it was the alcohol talking.’