Former Chelsea Striker Kerry Dixon has been sentenced For Pub Assault....

 Former Chelsea footballer Kerry Dixon, has been jailed for nine months for punching and kicking a man who is said to have called him “fatso”.

kerry denied assaulting the man at a pub in Luton in May 2014, but was convicted of the offence last week.

Judge Barbara Mensah described the attack as “shocking and sickening to watch”.
The judge said the violence was “disproportionate, unnecessary and completely over the top”.

The former striker, who scored 193 times for Chelsea, told the court he had been acting in self-defence and thought his victim, Ben Scoble, was going to hit him in the face with a glass.
“He was posing a threat to me as far as I was concerned. I have been glassed in the face before,” Mr Dixon said.

The court was shown CCTV footage of Dixon approaching Mr Scoble, 38, before punching him off a bar stool and subjected to a flurry of blows while on the floor.
The judge said the shocking footage showed how Mr Dixon launched at attack “out of the blue”, which had drawn “a gasp” from jurors when first played to the court during his trial last week.
”You were not just striking him, knocking him off his bar stool, but continuing to strike him when he was on the ground,” she said.

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