Boozy Brit jailed for Singapore Grand Prix punch-up before Lando Norris crossed the finish line

Building company director Jonathan David Lowe had specially flown to Singapore with friends to watch the race, a court heard.

But the night before Norris's win on September 22, Lowe, 43, went on the rampage following a boozy night at a bar overlooking the city's exclusive Marina Bay Sands resort. Judges heard how Lowe felled an assistant manager with a single punch and then battered him five times on the ground before stomping and kicking him repeatedly.

The 28-year-old victim Ng Se Li was in hospital for seven days recovering from the "brutal unprovoked" attack, said prosecutors. Earlier CCTV footage showed Lowe barging into a lift with five men who had just left a nightclub at the resort and slapping and punching them until they fled.

Afterwards Lowe, who had been drinking whisky, grabbed a large, heavy flower pot and sent it crashing over a balcony to the floor below.

Lowe, a director of Keylon Interiors in Dartford, Kent, admitted one charge of deliberately causing physical harm and public nuisance at a hearing on October 17. Judges jailed him for six weeks and fined him SGD 1,000 (£584).

Earlier defence attorney Kalidass Murugaiyan had claimed: “What we have here is really an aberration, a one-off incident, or a series of unfortunate incidents over a short span of time.”

Story: NewsX