A bouncer needed stitches after he was attacked by a thug who thought he was being filmed.

Seamus O'Brien, 26, struck Martin Frazier outside neighbouring nightspots in Harbour Parade, Ramsgate.

The 26-year-old, of Ramsgate Road, Margate, has now been jailed for 21 months after admitting unlawful wounding.

Canterbury Crown Court heard how security staff were meeting in June last year to discuss police presence outside Clique bar and the Rokka nightclub two doors away.

O'Brien's name was mentioned "as a troublemaker" who had been banned from going to the clubs.

Judge Rupert Lowe heard how security boss Mr Frazier was on duty as O'Brien was in a crowd "taking cocaine and urinating…even if O'Brien was not doing those things".

The court heard that as Mr Frazier took out his phone, a friend of O'Brien thought they were being filmed.

"Door staff and those who manage them are there to protect the public and they in turn must be protected by the courts from people like you..." Judge Lowe

It was then O'Brien asked the doorman if he was filming him and was told he was not.

Then, as the victim turned away, O'Brien punched him "as hard as he could" before walking away.

The judge told him: "You no doubt thought that this man had been filming you and thought 'I am going to show him who is boss and if someone does something I don't like in the Ramsgate Harbour area, I will punch him'."

"Door staff and those who manage them are there to protect the public and they in turn must be protected by the courts from people like you.

"A small minority who go to clubs go looking for trouble and violence, and door staff are the only ones between them and the public. They are therefore vulnerable.”