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Man jailed over one-punch death after pub row
Tony Powles died in hospital 13 days after he was fatally punched
A man who fatally punched a fellow regular at a pub in a row over a phone charger has been jailed for five years after being convicted of manslaughter.
Harry Mannion, 28, punched 62-year-old Tony Powles to the ground during a row at the Red Lion on Batley Road in Wakefield on 9 October.
Powles, a father-of-four who was due to marry his partner the following week, suffered a "catastrophic brain injury" when he hit his head on the floor and died 13 days later, Leeds Crown Court heard.
In a victim impact statement, his daughter Rebecca Powles described him as the "absolute pillar of our family", adding: "He had so many friends and was loved by absolutely everyone who knew him."
Rebecca Powles said the family had been "forced to suffer beyond the boundaries of normal grief", telling the court: "We will never, ever forget having to make the excruciating decision to turn off his life support."
Mannion, himself a father of a five-year-old daughter, had denied manslaughter - claiming to have acted in self-defence - but was found guilty following a trial in June.
The court heard how the pair were both regulars at the Red Lion and had been "pub friends".
At the time Mannion, from Barnsley, was in a relationship with the pub's manager, while Powles had gone there that evening with his family.
Tensions arose when the defendant "took a dim view" of one of Powles's daughters serving behind the bar as part of her training to work there, prosecutor Matthew Harding said.