Overview

• Juraj Argay, 37, pleaded guilty at Nottingham Crown Court and received a three-and-a-half-year prison term for inflicting grievous bodily harm.
• The offence occurred when Argay, intoxicated and boasting of bare-knuckle fighting, pushed past a patron and punched 68-year-old Ronald Eyre at the Hammer and Wedge Club.
• Eyre’s skull fracture caused a brain bleed that led to a surgical craniectomy and left him with a prolonged disorder of consciousness.
• He now relies on a tracheostomy tube and two carers for all personal care and is deemed unlikely to regain independent living.
• The attack forced the closure of the Hammer and Wedge Club after nearly 25 years under Eyre and his partner Claire Blacknell.