A head chef who attacked his former girlfriend when he found her with another man has been jailed.
Max Collings-Wells was on a night out in Bristol, with Alexandra Dalby and friends, when he found her being intimate with the male outside the Ibis hotel.
Having punched the man, Collings-Wells punched Miss Dalby and attacked her again in the hotel lift, Bristol Crown Court heard.
Collings-Wells was to face trial but the 26-year-old, of Middle Street in Harnham, Salisbury, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm in October last year.
Judge Julian Lambert jailed him for five months.
He told Collings-Wells: "You were in a jealous rage and in drink when you repeatedly and viciously punched a woman with whom you had previously had a relationship.
"Prison is the only place for a man who commits an offence of this nature."
Neil Treharne, prosecuting, said it was Collings-Wells' case that, after the night out, he found his ex, Miss Dalby with the man.
Mr Treharne said: "He found her in a state of intimacy with the other man.
"He felt angry about this.
"He was still raw about the breakdown of the relationship.
"He assaulted Miss Dalby outside the hotel, punching her two or three times."
Mr Treharne said after the initial attack Collings-Wells followed Miss Dalby into the hotel lift and punched her again.
She sustained swelling to her nose, bruising to her face and body and a chipped tooth.
Miss Dalby made an impact statement in which she said her injuries had caused people to stare at her and she had felt like a "monster".
She said she had suffered flashbacks and panic attacks, was uncomfortable going out, lost wages and felt embarrassed and humiliated.
Jodie Mittell, defending, said her client worked at a hotel in Salisbury and was viewed as hard working, reliable and punctual.
Miss Mittell said the "despicable" assault was very much out of character for him.
She told the court: "He acknowledges drugs and alcohol played a part in the incident."
