Two work pals went out for a drunken celebration which ended with one of them receiving a fractured jaw.

A judge has heard how one of the men, Jordan Evans, had suddenly turned nasty and attacked his friend.

The 20-year-old snarled 'I’m going to kill you' before smashing his fist into the face of startled victim Lee Bromley.

Mr Bromley was left with a fractured jaw after the unprovoked beating in his home in Augusta Road, Ramsgate.

And Evans later told police he could remember nothing of the incident until he woke up the following morning in a police station.

Now the former sheet metal worker – who was out celebrating getting a new home, a job and being off alcohol – has been left without a home and has been sacked, Canterbury Crown Court was told.

Prosecutor Kieran Brand told how, on April 9 this year at 3pm, the victim and the defendant had gone out drinking together.

He said: “They returned to Augusta Road between 9pm and 11pm. Mr Bromley can’t be more exact than that because of the amount of drink they had taken.

“They were sitting around the dining table when, without warning, Evans began shouting and repeatedly punching him to his head, knocking over a table.”

“The attack had been so sudden and so aggressive that I didn’t want to go back home to where it had happened and be reminded of it..." - Lee Bromley

Mr Bromley, whose blood was all over the carpet, then asked Evans why he had attacked him.

Mr Brand said: “A neighbour, who had heard a noise, found Mr Bromley with serious cuts to his nose and head, and he was taken to hospital, where doctors diagnosed a fractured jaw.”

In his victim impact statement read to court, Mr Bromley said that after the attack he was so shocked he spent four days at his family’s home.

He said: “The attack had been so sudden and so aggressive that I didn’t want to go back home to where it had happened and be reminded of it.

"After then I felt extremely vulnerable, and for the first month wouldn’t have a bath because of the death threats against me.

"I felt the door could come through at any time. My life had been threatened for no apparent reason.”

Evans, who now lives in Streatham, south London, pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm.

John Barker, defending, said he had got the job through the Prince’s Trust and had been celebrating being “off the drink”, getting his new job and had paid a deposit on a flat.

He was on the road to a constructive life and he celebrated.

Afterwards he woke up in a police station not knowing what he had done: “He was sacked from his job and he lost his accommodation. Since then he has not touched a drop of alcohol.”

The judge, Recorder Deborah Charles, sent him to a young offender institution for 14 months, telling him: “This was a senseless and unprovoked attack.”