A pub customer celebrating a birthday was punched to the ground and suffered a fractured skull in a drunken assault, a court has heard. A judge told bricklayer Liam Pritchard that he could have caused fatal injuries when he delivered the blow which caused his to his victim to hit his head on a concrete floor and lose consciousness.
The victim underwent a CT scan after doctors feared he may have suffered a bleed on the brain. The defendant's advocate told Swansea Crown Court his client was a hard-working family man and was was not the kind of man who "regularly indulges in fisticuffs".
Alycia Carpanini, prosecuting, told the court the attack happened in The Coracle pub in the Penlan area of Swansea shortly before midnight on September 10 last year. The defendant was in the bar with friends, as was victim of the assault, Zachary Harris, who was out celebrating a friend's birthday.
