A builder who took to Facebook to "gloat" just 45 minutes after receiving a suspended sentence for assaulting a marine has been jailed.

Ben Scott, 31, attacked Cpl Marc Jolly, 27, on Christmas Eve 2015 by kicking him in the head, leaving the soldier feeling he was "safer in Afghanistan" than the UK.

Truro Crown Court heard Scott carried out the unprovoked attack in a car park in Camborne, Cornwall, leaving Cpl Jolly wounded in the head and eye.

In April, Scott received a suspended sentence, but took to Facebook just 45 minutes later to "gloat".

In the message, accompanied with a picture of a champagne bottle, he described Cpl Jolly as "scum".

But the judge then recalled Scott and jailed him for 12 months.

Judge Christopher Harvey Clark labelled Scott's social media post as a "stupid and gloating comment".

He said that Scott must now "face the consequences of his stupid and arrogant behaviour" which followed his court case on 22 April.

Truro Crown Court was told earlier that under Section 155 of the Power of Sentencing Act 2000 the court had the power to change a sentence within 66 days of it being passed.