A thug has been jailed after attacking two acquaintances in a pub after a row over a garden shed. Darren Pilkington, 39, used a barstool during the unprovoked attack at the Ox and Plough pub, in Rochdale, on the evening of September 2 this year.
After beating and kicking his two victims, he eventually left the pub only to return with a brick - though he was not let back inside the premises.
He later told police: “Them two started on me so I just went bang bang” while gesturing with his hands in a punching motion, a court has heard.
Pilkington, of Milnrow Road, Rochdale, has now been jailed for eight months after admitting two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
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