A PLASTERER had knocked back 11 pints with a cocktail of spirits when he headbutted his sister’s former boyfriend in a Waterside pub.

Lee Cook, 22, claimed he had acted in self defence at the Old Mill, Holbury, after he had approached Elliot Power who punched him.

But jurors rejected his story to convict him of causing actual bodily harm to the victim who received five stitches in hospital for a wound above his left eye.

Jailing Cook, of Tristan Close, Calshot, for 12 months, Judge John Boggis QC told him: “You had a skinful and you seemed to be proud of that giving evidence.

You should be ashamed.

“You knew what you were doing. You went to sort him out. It was premeditated.

You had time to withdraw and think about it but you didn’t.”

In mitigation at Southampton Crown Court, Audrey Archer said Cook now accepted the headbutt was over the top in self defence.