A thug embarked on a drink-fuelled spree of violence where he delivered a "sucker punch" to a Good Samaritan and attacked a police officer.
Lynden Brown's shocking catalogue of crimes happened when he was subject to a suspended sentence for dangerous driving and drink-driving.
The first offence was on May 29, 2021, when the father-of-five was in The Greyhound Inn, on Nottingham Road, Arnold, and got into a heated confrontation with a doorman.
A customer stepped in to try and calm things down but was met with a hard "sucker punch", said Jonathon Dee, prosecuting, to his jaw, knocking him clean out and to the floor.
Nottingham Crown Court heard on Wednesday, February 9, the innocent man banged his head on the floor and remembered nothing until he woke up the next morning to a swollen jaw and a lump on the back of his head.
Judge Stuart Rafferty QC, who jailed violent Brown for the attack, told him: "You assaulted a man doing nothing more than trying to keep you out of trouble. Hitting him when he was not even looking, knocking him to the ground and, fortunately for you, knocking him out and not causing him serious injury.
"You could easily have been facing an allegation of manslaughter. I don't sentence you for that but it is worth bearing in mind."
What happened next involved him, "behaving in an absolutely disgusting manner elsewhere," added the judge.
Brown, a ground worker, ended up in a McDonald's nearby spitting out half-chewed food at staff members.
When police arrived, he shouted horrific abuse at one, that "his head was going to be popped off", and threats to kill him, that the officer was racist. Brown tried to bite him.
But a hood had been placed over Brown's head to stop him spitting and spared the significantly distressed officer.
Five weeks later, he hit a vulnerable man twice.
Matthew Hayes, mitigating for Brown, 39, of Fleming Gardens, Clifton, said his client got depressed and started going out more and drinking and taking drugs.
"He describes to me as 'simply losing his head'", he said.
Taking into account Brown's pleas of guilty, the judge imposed a total of two years in prison, of which he will serve half and the rest on licence.
Six months was imposed for assault, causing bodily harm at the pub, six months consecutively for assaulting the police officer and three months consecutively for common assault.
He received three months concurrently on a criminal damage charge, where he repeatedly punched his partner's door.
Nine months consecutively was imposed from the previous suspended sentence.
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