A retro music fan has been ordered to pay compensation to an 80s night customer who he beat up in a bizarre attack outside a night club.

Carl Evans encouraged his wife to dance on the lap of the complete stranger before suddenly accusing him of groping her and beating him up.

He left victim Kieran Booker with a double fracture of his eye socket and a gash on his head after a sustained attack which only ended because passers-by intervened and pulled him away.

Mr Booker had been thrown out of the Eighties Bar in Victoria Parade, Torquay, for being drunk and was sat on steps next to the club when Evans and his wife Vivienne came out.

Evans encouraged his wife to sit on Mr Booker's lap, where he pulled up her dress and suggested that she 'do that gyrating thing you do with me'.

The couple were seen hurrying away from the scene before the police arrived, leaving Mr Booker injured on the steps.

Evans, aged 46, of Plymouth Rd, Chudleigh Knighton, admitted causing grievous bodily harm  and was jailed for 18 months, suspended for two years and ordered to pay £1,750 compensation by Judge Peter Johnson at Exeter Crown Court.

He told him he was sparing him a jail sentence because he has exceptional family responsibilities, including caring for a step daughter with severe mental health problems.

The judge said he was also impressed by references from people in Chudleigh Knighton about the work Evans has done for the community.

He told him:"That night you had drunk more than you would normally do and it had an effect on you, and perhaps that effect and the strain of your personal circumstances may have caused you to behave out of character.

"Earlier, you had exposed your wife's breasts in a semi-public place and having left the bar, you found Mr Booker, who was extremely drunk, sitting on a wall.

"You went off to find a taxi while your wife, for some reason, decided to straddle him. You suggested she should gyrate on him and as a result you became concerned about what was happening..

"You went across to stop this. Mr Booker was still sitting when you pulled your wife away, slapped him, then repeatedly punched him on the ground at least seven to ten times."

A earlier hearing was told that Mr Booker needed hospital treatment for two fractures of his eye socket after the attack in the early hours of September 16 last year.

Doorman Darren Thompson and passer-by Paul Rivers told how they saw Mrs Evans sitting, straddling, or lying on Mr Booker's lap as he was slumped on the steps in Victoria Parade.

They said Evans was encouraging her to gyrate or dance and that he then went over and launched the attack.

Evans denied saying anything about his wife gyrating and said he reacted to hearing her say 'no' when she was sexually assaulted.

She said her husband had not encouraged to dance on Mr Booker's lap or pulled up her dress. He said she cried out when he groped her and only saw her husband land one blow.

Mr Brian Fitzherbert, defending, said Evans suffers from a debilitating illness but looks after his two children and stepdaughter, who is currently being treated as an in patient but is due to return home soon.

He said references showed that Evans acted completely out of character on the night of the attack and has shown remorse for his actions ever since.