James John Dean Cameron had been out with friends for several hours on the evening of 23 December last year, drinking vodka and cokes and pints of lager before going to Tanguy’s nightclub.
CCTV footage showed Cameron approach his victim – who claimed that the defendant had licked his face – on the dance floor.
Thinking it was one of his friends ‘messing around’, the victim tapped Cameron on the face – only realising it was a stranger when he stepped back.
Cameron then punched the man, causing the glass he was holding to shatter, the court heard.
He was jailed for 15 months after pleading guilty to grave and criminal assault.
The court heard that Cameron has 13 previous convictions since 2006, including for grave and criminal assault in 2008. and in 2013 he was sentenced to three years in prison for various drug offences.
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