A man who attacked a shop worker after being told he could not exchange a fishing net for another item has been jailed. 

David Furlong demanded money from Mill View Fishing Tackle in Mill View, March having been told the net he had broken himself could not be exchanged for a more expensive net on July 30 last year. 

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

The worker gave Furlong, 33, £65 from the till and he left. 

On December 9 at Cambridge Crown Court, Furlong, of Main Road in Parson Drove, was jailed for three years having pleaded guilty to the robbery. 

Furlong was also given a five-year restraining order. 

PC Stephen Elliot, of Cambridgeshire Police, 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.”