A young father punched a rugby player unconscious to the floor and wounded another man in an unprovoked early hours attack.

Brennin Davis, 21, of Glan y Mor Aberaeron, was out with friends, who he said ‘were looking for a fight’ on a night out in Aberystwyth.

At around 4am in the morning of Sunday, July 16, last year he went with a friend to Hollywood Pizza on Pier Street.

Outside the takeaway were two men who had been out after returning from playing rugby.

The pair were standing outside the restaurant talking with a group of friends when Davis and another man turned up.

On Thursday, September 19, Swansea Crown Court was shown shocking footage of the completely unprovoked attack. In this Davis moved his friend’s arm out of the way, in order to get a better swing, before punching one of the young rugby players to the floor.

The CCTV footage showed the young man falling unconscious onto the pavement. The punch was so hard that it broke his jaw in two places, requiring him to undergo surgery to repair it.

Another of the young rugby players went to help his friend and Davis turned on him, raining down blows in quick succession and wounding him above his right eye which caused him to need stitches.

Davis had previously admitted unlawful wounding inflicting GBH with intent.

The court heard that neither of the men knew Davis and that the attack was completely unprovoked.

In victim impact statements both men said that they had had to have time off work because of their injuries. The man whose jaw Davis had broken had had difficulty eating and talking and had been unable to play rugby or attend his grandfather’s 88th birthday party.

His friend had suffered blurred vision for days. He said that the assault was always on his mind when he went out.

The court was told that Davis had no previous convictions or cautions.

In his defence it was said that he was a ‘softly spoken, articulate young man’ who was out with friends that night who were ‘looking for a fight’.

“He wishes that he had never travelled with them to Aberystwyth,” said defence barrister James Hartson.

He added that Davis was ‘in a heightened emotional state’ having recently separated from the mother of his child and suffered the loss of a friend but that ‘none of that excused his actions’ which were out of character.

After he had committed the unprovoked assault, Davis had been assaulted by others at the scene and had ended up in hospital himself.

Judge Mr Recorder A Eardley handed down a 33 month prison sentence for the grievous bodily harm offence and a six month sentence for the unlawful wounding, both to run concurrently.

He also made a five-year restraining order preventing Davis from contacting one of his victims for a period of five years.