A CONSTRUCTION worker was jailed for two years after attacking two men with a chair leg.
Craig Salter lay in wait for the two men as they left a pub where he had been drinking on the night of August 6.
Prosecutor Nicholas Rowland told Southampton Crown Court how Salter had a disagreement with one of the men and as a result had gone away to arm himself.
He then hid in bushes and jumped out at them as they passed along Victoria Street in Woolston.
He battered both men around their heads with the chair leg repeatedly, causing one to suffer a head wound that needed gluing back together and the other needing three stitches to a cut on his head.
The court heard how Salter, 24, of Portsmouth Road, Southampton, had a record of violent offences which he committed due to an alcohol problem.
The father-of-one was sentenced to two years in jail.
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