A CONVICTED heroin and crack cocaine dealer has been sentenced to more jail time after he knocked another man unconscious in a road rage incident.

Kyron Bromley, of Elgar Circle, Alway, Newport, “pummelled his victim’s face like a punchbag,” prosecutor David Pinnell told the city’s crown court.

The 29-year-old attacked Paul Morris as he and his family and friends were making their way home in a minibus following a Halloween party two years ago.

As the taxi stopped in Newport’s West Street to make a drop off, Bromley was driving in his car behind with a female passenger and was unable to get past because it is a narrow road.

Mr Pinnell said the defendant beeped his horn and revved his engine in frustration before Mr Morris went to “remonstrate” with him and opened the driver door.

The prosecutor said that Bromley claimed the victim aimed a “glancing blow” at him before he admitted punching the complainant three or four times and “rendering him temporarily unconscious” before driving off.

Mr Pinnell said that Mr Morris was treated at the city’s Royal Gwent Hospital after sustaining a broken nose, bruised eyes and cuts to his lip and chin which needed 17 stitches.

The defendant was due to go on trial after being charged with wounding but the prosecution accepted his guilty plea to the lesser count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Mr Pinnell told Judge Stephen Hopkins, QC, that Bromley was jailed at Swansea Crown Court in February for seven years and four months after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply heroin and crack cocaine.

The court was also told that the defendant was jailed prior to his drugs charges for previous convictions that included harassment.

Gareth Williams, mitigating for Bromley, who called the attack “a regrettable incident”, disputed the fact that the complainant had suffered a broken nose.

While he admitted that his client had used “excessive force” he said there was “an element of provocation” after Mr Morris’ wife had shouted at the defendant and the victim had opened his car door.

Mr Williams added: “They hardly covered themselves in glory that night.”

In sentencing him, Judge Hopkins told Bromley that “through no fault of your own” trial dates listed for last August and then November had to be adjourned because other cases overran and there were no judges available.

He added: “You have had the good sense to plead guilty and taken the good advice of Mr Williams.”

The judge sentenced him to an additional two months in prison to the term he was serving, making a total time in jail of seven-and-a-half years.

Bromley must also pay a victim surcharge.