Three young drunken men who carried out a "cowardly, violent attack" have been jailed for two years.

Nicholas Pepper, Benjamin Mendez and Mark Verier, all from Thanet, beat up and kicked 34-year-old Lee Delves after he confronted them about their yobbish behaviour outside his Herne Bay home.

Mr Delves, a driver, suffered multiple severe bruising and brain swelling. Following the incident last November, he began suffering shaking attacks and subsequently had a car accident.

He is receiving on-going tests and is currently unfit to work, Canterbury Crown Court heard.

Pepper, 24, of Royal Close, Broadstairs; Mendez, 23, of Ethlebert Road, Margate; and Verier, 20, of Gordon Road, Cliftonville, all admitted assault causing actual bodily harm.

Pepper and Mendez will serve their sentences in prison, Verier will go to a young offenders' institution.

Sentencing them, Judge Michael O'Sullivan said it has been a cowardly and violent attack.

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