Street attack

Self-defense? Of course ...

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UK -- A MA fighter - who has 80 previous convictions, including offences of violence, theft and one of drugs - was jailed for 12 months for a Hartlepool street attack that left a man with a dislocated shoulder.

The man injured his victim so badly that he needed two operations in which doctors fitted a screw to the bone, the Crown Court heard.

The attack took place on October 29 last year, when the victim was walking home from a night out with his partner and another couple.

The 27-year-old fighter approached asking the victim "if he wanted some". His shouting and abuse soon turned to violence and he lunged for the man and knocked him to the floor and punched him so many times that he lost consciousness.

In a police interview, the man claimed he was acting in self-defense but also added that "he was trained in martial arts and was trained to knock people unconscious."

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