A man who bit part of another man's ear off in a bar has been jailed for two years.

Harvey Morgan jumped on Darren Barden's back in Rumours wine bar, East Grinstead, and attacked him.

Mr Barden went home and was leaving for the hospital to receive medical attention to his wound when Morgan and two friends confronted him outside.

Morgan again attacked Mr Barden, this time punching him in the face leaving him with a split lip and a chipped tooth.

Morgan, 30, formerly of Heron Tye, East Grinstead, and now living at Hammonds Place, Gobowen, Oswestry, Shropshire, admitted charges of grievous bodily harm and actual bodily harm when he appeared at Lewes Crown Court.

The court heard Mr Barden was left permanently scarred by the attacks in December last year.

Elizabeth Smaller, defending, told the court the attacks followed ill-feeling between the two men after Morgan, who has previous convictions for violence, began a relationship with a former girlfriend of Mr Barden.

She said: "There is a girlfriend in common.

"At the time of the incident the defendant was going out with a lady called Vicky, who had previously gone out with Mr Barden.

"There had been some difficulty about it. There was no secret in the community there was some ill feeling."