Thug who launched 'savage attack' on vulnerable woman killed a man eight years ago
A convicted killer who launched a savage attack on a vulnerable woman outside a Netherton pub was starting a 28-month prison sentence today.
Michael Cameron who had killed a young man in a similar incident in 2007 - struck again outside The Hope Tavern during the early hours of April 25.
The 26-year-old punched Kelly Griffiths after an argument at the pub before turning on her friend Michelle Claridge when she tried to halt the violence, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard on Thursday.
Cameron then rained further blows down on the disorientated Miss Griffiths while ignoring further pleas to stop, said Mr Paul Farrow prosecuting.
Mr Devon Small, defending, said: "He has seen CCTV of the incident and is sickened by his actions. He has not been to a pub since this incident and wants to apologise to both victims for what he did
"He is not proud of his criminal record at all and had been putting his life back in order by staying out of trouble for three years."
Cameron, a barber from The Shrubbery, Eve Hill, Dudley pleaded guilty to two assault charges and was jailed by Judge Alan Parker who told him: " This was a determined and disturbing attack in which you hit one of the women many times to the head over several minutes. You pursued her and persisted in your attack."
Cameron killed a man with a single punch outside a pub in Rowley Regis eight years ago. The victim hit his head on the pavement after being felled by the blow.
Cameron had been drinking in The Chaplin pub with friends, all members of the DJ Slew Gang of Netherton.
He got word of trouble outside the pub and landed a ferocious blow to the face of 19-year-old victim Richard Blakeway.
On the night of the fatal fight he was on bail for a violent altercation with a man in a shopping centre.
And the court was told Cameron bragged after delivering the blow: "Did you see it? It was a one-hit KO."
Cameron was jailed in 2008 for 34 months. The family of Mr Blakeway criticised that sentence as 'pathetic'.
Judge Parker concluded: "All your offending involves violence and it is an unhappy fact that you caused someone's death in 2007."
He concluded that the defendant presented a risk to the general public and ordered that he be monitored on licence for 32 months longer than would normally be the case on his release from prison.