A MAN who attacked a bar manager and a fellow customer acting as a Good Samaritan after being barred has been ordered to do 200 hours of community service.
Joseph Wareham went into the staff area of The Cliftonville Inn in George Street, Hove, spat at the manager and threw punches at him because of earlier being barred from the pub.
A customer came to the 31-year-old manager's aid and they got Wareham outside.
Wareham kicked the manager, punched the 42-year-old customer in the face and then hit the customer with a chair, during the attack shortly before 5pm on Sunday, January 18.
Wareham, of Gladstone Road, Portslade, pleaded guilty to assaulting both men when he appeared at Brighton Magistrates' Court.
PC Dan Patterson said: "This was an entirely unprovoked attack on a man trying to do his job and a member of the public who acted like a Good Samaritan.
"We will not tolerate any incidents of violence and would urge anyone who sees something like this to contact us immediately."
Wareham, 27, was made the subject of a supervision order, ordered to do 200 hours of community service and told to pay £150 compensation and £85 court costs.
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