'Then when I had kids that brought up a whole other layer and paranoia on if it could happen to them. 'He was 28 and I was 19 and when I turned 28 last year I thought I was going to die that year. 'It is 10 years next month since the incident happened and different things have helped me through it but it is an ongoing battle. Joan Scourfield and Jacob Dunne (Image: BBC) They even encouraged him to enrol at Nottingham Trent University where he got a first class honours in Criminology. He had drifted into drug-related gang culture, drinking heavily and fighting for fun, but it was not prison which reformed him and sent him on a road of redemption. Jacob, from The Meadows but now living in Mapperley, had a difficult childhood way before the events of that night unfolded in Old Market Square. What have I done? How am I going to tell my mum what I have done? I have ruined my life.' 'But it is worse than that because you are culpable. 'The closest thing I can try and get people to understand how it feels like is this - when you get a phone call from the police or hospital when you lose someone close to you. It was pure dread and panic (when I found out). 'There are a lot of fights on the weekend when people get drunk but I thought it was just another incident like that. The news of what he had done shattered Jacob, who was jailed for 30 months for manslaughter in 2011. 'I did not think what did happen would happen from a single punch.' It would be difficult to find anyone who has not thrown a punch at someone. 'It was not unique because how many people throw one punch. 'Young people manipulate each other to do something stupid - they egg each other on or to act aggressively to someone else. You should always question what is going on before you get involved. 'I got involved without asking questions. 'Me being someone who cared about how my friends see me and value my friendship I wanted to be someone they knew was there for them whether it is through violence or not. 'I just got a call from a friend 'can you help us, something is kicking off' and that was it. Now 29, with two young children of his own, he told Nottinghamshire Live: 'It was just any other night for a 19 year old, getting into a scrap at the end of it.

It is also a stark reminder of the consequences of violence. It is 10 years next month since that night and it is still a heavy burden that Jacob will have to carry for the rest of his life. On his return his mum's house was raided by police and he was arrested and charged with manslaughter. It was just a scrap, it happens every weekend, he thought.īut he was unaware that one punch would change his life forever. He left the scene - and even went on holiday the next day to Tenerife with his mum and brother to soak up the sunshine in warmer climates. Without question, and compounded by a reputation to protect, he launched just one punch at trainee paramedic James Hodgkinson, aged 28. He was 19-years-old and drinking in the city centre when he got the call that one his mates was in trouble.

It is a night that Jacob Dunne will never forget.

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