Keene Domaille, 22, of Les Petites Fontaines, St Peter Port, admitted a charge of assault when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court.
Crown Advocate Jenny McVeigh told the court how the incident had happened at PingQuay on the Quay at 10pm.
The member of security staff had refused the defendant and his friend entry to the bar due to their intoxicated state.
A conversation then ensued which resulted in the defendant becoming agitated and he refused to move away. He moved towards the doorman who pushed him back. Domaille’s friend tried to pull him away but he was unable to stop him from punching the doorman in the face. Domaille left the scene but was located in the High Street soon afterwards. The doorman declined to make a formal statement but the incident was captured on PingQuay’s CCTV.
Domaille gave no comment responses to questions in interview.
He was last before the court in December for using threatening behaviour towards family members for which he was ordered to perform 140 hours of community service as a direct alternative to four months in prison. A probation order had been imposed for 18 months.
Defending, Advocate Samuel Steel said his client accepted that his actions had been unnecessary, unjustified and unprovoked. The doorman had only been doing his job and his client had had too much to drink. It had not been a prolonged assault and alcohol was again the central feature of his offending.
Judge Gary Perry said the probation report showed that the defendant had paid only lip service to engagement with the Criminal Justice Substance Service which had been a key element of the previously imposed probation order.
‘You are a violent man and other people have to suffer at your hands,’ he told him.
‘When I first came to Guernsey you did not have security staff working at bars,’ the judge added.
‘Businesses do not want to spend their profits on security but nowadays they have to because of people like you. You were only four months in to an 18-month probation order when this happened. I have to protect the public and you will keep going to prison until there appears to be a change in your behaviour.’
Domaille was jailed for one month for the assault. The previously imposed community service order was revoked and the four months alternative prison sentence activated in full to run consecutively.