A man will spend the next three years behind bars after he unleashed a "vicious" assault on a shop worker after he was told he could not exchange a fishing net.

David Furlong, 33, demanded money from the till after being told the net he had broken himself could not be exchanged for a more expensive net from a fishing shop.

He grabbed the man, punched him repeatedly in the head and face and headbutted him, causing bruising and swelling. 

The worker at the store in Mill View, March, gave Furlong £65 from the till and he left.

On Friday, at Cambridge Crown Court, Furlong, of Main Road, Parson Drove, was jailed for three years having pleaded guilty to the robbery on 30 July last year.

He was also given a five-year restraining order.

PC Stephen Elliot said: “Furlong behaved like a thug, unleashing a vicious assault on the shop worker who was just doing his job.

“The violence was completely disproportional and unprovoked and the sentence handed down reflects the severity of the attack.”