A man had to have surgery to insert plates in his jaw after it was broken in two places during an assault outside a Huddersfield pub.

Leeds Crown Court heard Anthony Lee was drinking and playing pool in the Royal in Scar Lane on November 15 last year with Ben France and others.

There had been an incident between them some years earlier but Mr Lee thought all that was in the past.

Simon Haring prosecuting said Mr Lee went outside for a cigarette and was talking to France and another person he did not know who was later identified as Richard Bostock.

There was reference to the previous disagreement and initially France, walked off with Bostock and a third man but then called Mr Lee over to them.

That was the last thing he remembered of the incident but was then seen by the landlady with his face swollen and his eyes shut, and when she examined the CCTV footage saw he had gone to the ground with the three men around him appearing to “put the boot in”.

She said Bostock appeared to be filming the others on his phone and she saw him kick Mr Lee.

Mr Lee was taken to hospital in Huddersfield and later transferred to Bradford Royal Infirmary where he had two plates and two pins inserted in his upper and lower jaw.

Charles Blatchford for France said the only person the landlady had actually identified as kicking Mr Lee was Bostock.

There was a history between France and Mr Lee stemming back some years to a time when France’s father had recently died. It was his case that Mr Lee had been goading him about him and in an altercation France came off worse.

On the night of the latest incident Mr Lee in drink had mentioned that earlier disagreement. He accepted a punch was thrown and others had joined in without France asking them to. He regretted the injuries which were caused as a result something he had never intended.

“He realises violence is not a way to solve matters no matter what someone is saying.”

France, 25 of Spindle Lane, Longwood, Huddersfield admitted causing grievous bodily harm to Mr Lee and was jailed for 27 months.

The court heard Bostock, 31, formerly of Moor End Road, Lockwood, Huddersfield who admitted the same charge has a history of abusing cocaine and cannabis and has now been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

He was ordered to be detained under section 37 of the Mental Health Act and to be held under section 41 without time limit.

Judge Geoffrey Marson QC said the offence involving the use of shod feet as a weapon had resulted in a serious injury. He told Bostock his detention was necessary to protect the public from serious harm.