“I AM registered as disabled, that is the consequence of one punch in the wrong place and the wrong time.”

That is the message from a Picket Twenty man who has been left in physical and emotional pain after a soldier struck a blow to his head, causing bleeds on the brain.

Alan Nunn was working as a nightclub doorman in Camberley on October 19, 2017, when Liam Holgate was evicted from the venue.

Holgate stood talking amicably for 10 minutes before he swung a sudden punch, striking Alan in the side of the head and causing him to fall to the ground unconscious. Scans later revealed that he had suffered a number of bleeds on the brain.

The father-of-three said: “I don’t really remember what happened, but he left and then came back and out of the blue, he came and smacked me.”

Alan spent around four days in Frimley Park Hospital but within eight hours of being discharged, he was rushed to hospital in Winchester as he was losing stability.

For six months, he was wheelchair-bound, until March this year, and had to sleep in the living room of his home, with his family taking care of him.

“It was one of the worst things that could have happened to me. I was a workaholic. I loved what I did, I worked day and night and my life has been turned upside down. I have had to readjust everything – it has been a really struggling time.

“It has been life-changing, everything becomes more difficult, you can’t just go into town with the kids and no popping out to see my mates down the road.

“I love taking my daughter to school every day but while I was in the wheelchair I couldn’t get up the slope.”

Alan said he now has to take photos every day to remind him of what he does as he forgets events that his family talk about.

But it is not just the emotional pain.

The 33-year-old will have to take tablets for the foreseeable future, with long-term health problems not expected to be diagnosed for a number of years.

On Monday, November 5, Holgate, 24, of Pilton Lawn, Barnstaple, was jailed for 20 months for grievous bodily harm.

He was ordered to pay £4,000 in damages to Alan as well a £530 victim surcharge.

Alan, a former transport manager, is now urging people to think about their actions on a night out and the consequences throwing a single punch may bring.

He said: “I just think the majority of things that happen in this day and age is because of drink or substances which cause violence.

“It is not just my life that this one punch has affected, it is my children, my wife and my friends.”