00:00Door staff are often the first to feel the brunt of hot-headed pub goers, but in Jonathan's
00:05case he felt it more than most after he was assaulted at work.
00:10It all happened in a matter of seconds and caused some injuries to my kneecap, knee,
00:16hamstring, back of the cartilage, pretty much my entire leg.
00:20After reporting the assault to police, Jonathan's attacker Craig Rimmer from Folkestone was charged
00:25with occasioning actual bodily harm.
00:27I go through it in my head, could I have done, is there anything I could have done differently?
00:33And there are even times where you just, you wake up panicked, you think, is this going
00:37to happen again?
00:37Like, I'm cautious every time I look around who's around me.
00:41I know for a physical fact, I can't get stuck in and I've struggled to defend myself a lot
00:46more than when I was a fully-bodied, able-to-dorman.
00:50Two weeks ago, Jon's attacker was sentenced, it's a year and a half on from the attack itself.
00:56But Jon says he wasn't invited to the hearing. He says £2,000 of compensation from the perpetrator
01:04is not enough to warrant what he's gone through.
01:07They let down the night-time economy, they let me down. Without us, the night-life economy
01:12can't work. Unless the police want to suddenly find an extra few thousand officers and put
01:17them on doors, they have to work with us.
01:20Jonathan says he believes he was denied the right to supply the court with an updated victim
01:25personal statement before his attacker was sentenced. It's something that neither the
01:30Crown Prosecution Service, Kent Police or the Courts and Tribunal Judiciary have provided
01:35an explanation for.
01:36Chloe Brewster for KMTV in Folkestone.
01:39Ian was just a movie...
01:39Steve doesn't know speaking about where he was done.
01:39I really saw him.
01:39diese of the señor pay-book, in the sem cried out.
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