A DRUNKEN man beat his victim over the head with vodka bottles until they broke.

Haroldas Zemantauskas also attacked Michal Jedrzejewski by jumping and stamping on him, Worcester Crown Court heard.

The violence blew up in a house in Ledbury Road, Hereford, which was shared by Poles and Lithuanians.

The men had been drinking cider and vodka before Mr Jedrzejewski, from Poland, was punched 10 times in the face by an unknown assailant.

In the early hours, as a witness was checking on his condition, Zemantauskas burst into his room and rained blows on Mr Jedrzejewski’s head with the bottles, said Mary Wallace, prosecuting.

He suffered a circular cut on his scalp and needed stitches in face wounds.

Zemantauskas, a 25-yearold Lithuanian, of Church Road, Hereford, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding.

Judge Alistair McCreath said he was “plainly a dangerous man” who should be deported from the UK at the earliest opportunity.

He posed a risk of serious harm to the public in the future because he was unable to control himself if he had been drinking.

Jailing him for three years, the judge said he could not have faced a more serious charge because the amount of drink he had consumed made him incapable of forming any intent to cause harm.

Zemantauskas needed three blows with one bottle on the victim’s head to break it.

Police found the defendant drunk in a chair. He claimed they had been in a fight.

Anthony Weston, defending, said Zemantauskas had a record for violence but nothing of this magnitude.

He had a serious alcohol problem but was penniless and supported by friends.