A man who attacked a friend during a dispute over a woman was handed three years probation at Supreme Court on Friday.

Jahdal Denbrook, 25, pleaded guilty to assaulting PTB bus driver Rodney Burchall, causing him actual bodily harm.

Crown counsel Oonagh Vaucrosson said the victim was drinking in Freddies Pub in King?s Square, St. George?s, when Denbrook took exception to him staring at his girlfriend.

At 1 a.m. on the night in question ? February 19 last year ? she said that Denbrook and another man attacked Mr. Burchall after he left the pub and was on York Street.

She said the victim felt a blow from the rear and fell to the ground. He was then kicked about the head and upper body. Mr. Burchall, a father-of-one who worked as a labourer at the time, was found by the Police and taken to hospital where he was diagnosed with concussion.

When the defendant was arrested, Ms Vaucrosson said, he told Police he was acting in self-defence during an altercation.

Charles Richardson, defending Denbrook, said his client entered his guilty plea not on the basis of an assault on Mr. Burchall from behind but on the basis that the pair had a fight outside of Freddies.

He said Denbrook considered Mr. Burchall to be a friend and admitted there was a point in the fight where he had the upper hand and should have backed off.

Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves said: ?I?m concerned that a man would attack a man just because of the way he looks at a woman in a bar.?

Warning the defendant that he might one day experience the same type of treatment, he added: ?I have a feeling that you guys felt powerful. You did it through foolishness. A man should protect a woman?s honour as a woman should protect her man?s, but this is not the correct way. A man should be able to gaze upon a woman when he?s in a bar or otherwise as long as he?s not breaking a law.?