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An 'angry' one-armed man who floored a Good Samaritan with a single punch has been jailed for a year.
Amputee Brett Coole, 24, was caught on CCTV punching the unnamed reveller after he 'suspected him of bad-mouthing him' outside a pub.
But when Jamie Thomas tried to intervene, Coole turned on him - knocking him to the ground with a single punch.
Thomas suffered a broken collar bone and had part of his ear ripped off, which had to be glued back together.
Sentencing Coole, Judge Julian Lambert told him: 'I don't know what eats you up and makes you the angry man you are.
'What is for certain is there was no need to beat the man in the way that you did.
'You turned on a young man who was trying to break up a fight. You wounded him.'
Dramatic footage shows an initial altercation between Coole and an unnamed pub-goer, which has not resulted in any criminal charges.
But when Mr Thomas intervened witnesses described seeing him knocked to the ground in an unprovoked attack which was not caught on camera.
Coole, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to wounding and was jailed for one year at Bristol Crown Court.He lost his left arm when he was a youngster and has 15 previous court appearances for 22 offences, including disorder, anti-social behaviour and robbery.
Nicholas Clough, defending, said his client was told someone had been 'bad-mouthing him' at the King's Arms pub in Kingswood, Bristol, in June last year.
Susan Cavender, prosecuting, said: 'Mr Thomas tried to break up the fight. He has very little memory of what happened.
'He saw someone he recognised backing away and the next thing he remembers is being back in the pub.'
Mr Clough, defending, said his client handed himself in a few days later after learning the police were searching for him.