A DUDLEY man with a conviction for manslaughter who viciously rained punches on a woman in an ugly incident outside a Netherton pub has been jailed for 28 months.

Judge Alan Parker at Wolverhampton Crown Court told Michael Cameron, of Eve Hill, the assault on Kelly Griffiths at the Hope Tavern was a “savage attack with repeated full force blows”

The judge said: “When you were hitting this woman you ignored warnings from others who tried to bring you to your senses.”

The court was told Cameron’s criminal record was an aggravating feature of the case and the judge added: “All your offending involves violence and it is an unhappy fact that you caused someone’s death in 2007.”

He told the 26-year-old CCTV footage of the assault showed it was a “determined and disturbing attack”.

And he continued: “You hit her on numerous occasions and always on the head.

“It was not a short period of time in which you lost your temper. You in fact hit her many times over several minutes. You pursued her and you persisted in your attack with great determination.”

The judge said Cameron posed a serious risk of causing harm to members of the public in the future and he ruled his licence should be extended by a further 32 months on his release from prison.

He added: “I am satisfied that it is necessary to protect the public from serious harm from you and I must pass an extended sentence.”

Paul Farrow, prosecuting, said Cameron had a number of convictions for violence and he killed a young man in an incident outside a Rowley Regis pub in 2007 when he lashed out with a single punch and the victim died when he struck his head on the pavement.

Mr Farrow said during the incident at the Hope Tavern Cameron got into an argument with Kelly Griffiths and he punched her to the head – and when her friend Michelle Claridge tried to intervene she too was assaulted.

Cameron, of Eve Hill, then punched Miss Griffiths time and again with “considerable” force and while she was disorientated he took the opportunity to keeping punching her, the judge said.

Devon Small, defending, said Cameron - who admitted assaulting Miss Griffiths causing her actual bodily harm and assaulting Miss Claridge by beating - was “disappointed with himself and sickened by his actions”.

He added: “He is not proud of his record at all. He had been putting his life back in order and he had stayed out of trouble for three years.”

Mr Small told the court Cameron was full of remorse and he had not been to a pub since the incident last April.

He added: “He wants to apologise to both victims for what he did.”