A 22-year-old boxer who broke a man's jaw with one punch before robbing him was jailed for six years yesterday.

In Supreme Court yesterday, John Stephen Glasgow of Spring Hill Road Warwick was found guilty of robbery using personal robbery on Tribe Road Number Three in Paget, on December 12, 2003.

During the four day trial Glasgow maintained he was painting his granny's house at the time of the robbery.

However, his victim, 49-year-old carpenter, Allen Robinson pointed Glasgow out at a Police identity parade that was judged by the jury to have been carried out fairly, despite Glasgow's lawyer, Craig Attridge's claims to the contrary.

Mr. Robinson, who had $600 of his wages stolen and his jaw snapped after Glasgow's vicious blows was also in the court to witness yesterday's sentencing.

"I do not feel more safe," Mr. Robinson said "But justice has prevailed."

He hoped the hefty sentence would "send a message to whoever wants to do bad things. I was glad that I testified".

"Doctors described that Mr. Robinson had been hit with a significant and great amount of force," Acting Justice Carlisle Greaves said during his sentencing. "Over the Christmas holidays, a time when everyone should be happy, he was left with wire in his face and a straw in his mouth."

Mr. Justice Greaves said several factors in the case had added time to Glasgow's sentence: his previous convictions, his not guilty plea and his lack of remorse and compensation to Mr. Robinson.

"This in my opinion is an awful circumstance no citizen should have to endure," he said.

Yesterday, Crown counsel Wayne Caines asked Mr. Justice Greaves for a sentence of seven to ten years in order for Glasgow to get "help to control his emotions and violent nature".

During his summing up to the jury, Mr. Justice Greaves called Glasgow's denials the "Shaggy defence".

"In Bermuda that's what you call it," he said. "It doesn't mean it's a bad defence".

He said that most of the evidence in the trial was circumstantial and was therefore up to the jury to decide what was fact.

The eight-woman, four-man jury reached its 11 to one verdict in three hours.

At his summation Defence lawyer Craig Attridge implored them to look past the "bams and booms and shouting (of the prosecution) and consider the evidence".

But Mr. Attridge would not confirm if the sentence would be appealed- as the decision to do so was not his to make he said.

And he advised Glasgow to hone his "fistful benefits" by getting into a boxing ring. "Few boxers can boast of a punch that can break bones," he said.

However, The Royal Gazette learned Glasgow did have experience in the ring.

At 20-years-old, he was fined $300 for assaulting a Police Officer outside the Emporium Building.

Police officers told him he could be arrested for littering and drinking in public.

Glasgow then told the female officer "she was one sexy thing", and that "she could sit on his lap".

After he was warned about his comments, he kicked the male officer in the groin.

Glasgow, who had been in a boxing match that night, denied saying those words, but in Magistrates' Court two years ago, he said: "I won my fight and I was a bit drunk, I think that I was still hyped up from winning my fight."

"Doctors said that the bone would bend before it would break. Now this is in the class of Ken Norton and the great Ali," Mr. Justice Greaves said.