In the Magistrate’s Court, Ian Buchanan (62), of Rue du Maupertuis, St Clement, was fined £600 after he admitted one count of assault following the incident in the Dog and Sausage on 21 October.
He was told by Assistant Magistrate Peter Harris that at his age he should know better than to lose his temper and punch someone.
The court had earlier heard that the assault occurred in the early evening when the victim started talking to a woman he knew and with whom Buchanan had been drinking.
The defendant, the court heard, became jealous and angry at having been left alone while the two chatted and he approached the victim and punched him twice in the side of the neck.
The victim was not injured.
Centenier Peter Garrett said that the victim later sent an email to the States police asking them to show leniency in the case, as the pair had bumped into one another again since the attack and the defendant had apologised.
‘Whatever you thought might have been going on in that conversation, to react in the way you did is clearly inappropriate,’ said Mr Harris to the defendant in sentencing.
He added that he had considered banning Mr Buchanan, a widower of 13 years, from licensed premises but had decided not to this time.
‘I am not going to impose such an order today but you need to be aware that should there be any repeat of this kind of behaviour it will get to the point where you’re at risk of going to prison, and certainly there will be a risk of being excluded from licensed premises.’
Advocate Martin Elks, defending, had told the court that his client was extremely remorseful over the incident.
