Man jailed over one punch assault, as brain damaged victim still in coma The victim’s brain injury is permanent Paul Hayes was jailed for three years. | Photo: Lincolnshire Police A man has been jailed for three years after an assault in a village pub near Spalding left his victim with brain damage and still in a coma. Paul Hayes, 46, was drinking in the Black Bull in Donington at around 11.30pm on January 4 last year. Mark Hatcher, also 46, from Donington had also been drinking in the pub that evening and was asked to leave by a staff member. After leaving he was confronted by Hayes and a verbal argument broken out between the two men outside the pub, which carried on up the street.