A COMPANY director flew into a drunken rage and attacked a pub landlord, then bit a customer’s leg after being asked to leave a gay bar.

Amateur boxer Kris Manclark, 35, downed four cocktails at The Jolly Farmers, in Paradise Street, Oxford, during a night out with his wife Jane to celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary.

After refusing to leave, Manclark punched customer Chris Weston and pub landlord Neil Ritchie on September 20, Oxford magistrates court heard last Thursday.

Manclark bit Mr Ritchie’s hand before he was wrestled to the ground, but managed to bite customer Martin Ellwood on the achilles tendon before he was finally restrained, the court heard.

Manclark, director of Blue Bridge Scaffolding, Didcot, was given a 16-week suspended sentence after admitting two charges of assault and causing actual bodily harm.

Mr Ritchie said after the sentence: “It’s a relief and I’m glad the courts have sent a message this violent behaviour is unacceptable. You can’t go round attacking landlords and people like he did.

“I was very scared. If it hadn’t been for the customers helping, I would have ended up as an in-patient at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

“He was incredibly violent. Even being restrained and waiting for police, he was like a bucking bronco.

“I was in pain, my heart was beating twice its normal rate. I couldn’t work for two days and it’s really set me back, even now.

“It’s the first time I have been attacked in 11 years of running a pub.”

Sarah Shears, prosecuting, told the court Manclark was asked to leave because he and his wife were being abusive.

After the attack, Mr Ritchie had a black eye and a bruised hand, Mr Weston received facial injuries and Mr Ellwood suffered a severe leg wound which still requires treatment.

Manclark had been for a meal with his wife at Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons restaurant, at Great Milton, to mark their wedding anniversary.

Howard Wilson, defending, said they then went to The Jolly Farmers, where Manclark drank four ‘Atomic Bomb’ cocktails.

Mr Wilson described Manclark as a heavy binge drinker, who was so drunk he could only recall lying on the pub floor being restrained.

He had sought help with Alcoholics Anonymous, Mr Wilson told the court.

He said: “He is very, very ashamed of what happened.”

Manclark, of High Street, Long Wittenham, is an amateur boxer for South Moreton Boxing Club and fights under the name Kris ‘The Firestarter’ Manclark.

Ruth Robinson, chairman of magistrates, gave Manclark a 16-week jail sentence suspended for 18 months.

Manclark was also ordered to carry out 100 hours’ unpaid work, given an 18-month supervision order, and told to pay a total of £1,375 compensation to his three victims, plus £65 costs.