THE twin brother of murderer Jay Nava has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for a series of violent attacks.

Toby Nava, of Shelbourne Road in Bournemouth, broke a fireman’s jaw in a random assault on a night out earlier this year.

The two had met just minutes before in the smoking area of the Dancing Duck, Westbourne.

While on bail for the offence, he assaulted two men he had never met before, as well as the father of a childhood friend.

Yesterday, Nava appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court.

He was due to be sentenced at an earlier hearing, on Friday, after admitting grievous bodily harm without intent, two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and assault by beating.

However, that sentence was adjourned after a judge said he needed more information about the injuries suffered by one of the victims.

The defendant’s twin brother Jay Nava was convicted of murder in April. He stabbed off-on girlfriend Natasha Wake, 26, 11 times at her home in Harley Gardens, Bournemouth.

During Friday’s hearing Richard Tutt, prosecuting, said Nava’s first attack took place on June 4 this year.

The victim, fireman Gary Bown, had been out with friends in Westbourne.

The other assaults took place on August 10.

“It was while he was in the smoking area in the early hours of the morning that he entered into a conversation with Mr Nava, who was until that point a complete stranger to him,” Mr Tutt said.

The two had a “perfectly amicable conversation” for around five minutes, the court heard.

Suddenly, Nava lashed out, hitting Mr Bown in the face and leaving him “dazed and concussed”.

The victim suffered a broken jaw and tooth. Nava was arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and bailed.

Early on the morning of August 10, the defendant attacked the father of a friend after appearing at his home.

Paul Garrett was awoken by the doorbell at around 5am. When he went downstairs, he found Nava - a friend of his son Tom - on the doorstep.

The defendant, 27, was in an “agitated state” and asking for Tom. However, he was told Tom wasn’t living at the address.

Nava then demanded Tom be contacted on the phone.

Mr Garrett said he remembers nothing after that point until he woke up in hospital. However, his wife, who had been in bed, heard a “thud” and went downstairs to find Mr Garrett face-down on the floor and bleeding heavily.

The victim made a full recovery, although has been left with a scar on his nose.

Nava then went to wholesale fruit and vegetable supplier GC Produce in nearby Seabourne Road. There, he demanded a taxi be ordered for him before suddenly lashing out at employees Shaun Storrie and Steven Mouatt.

In the moments before the assaults, he told Mr Storrie: “I’ll stab you in the neck with a pen.

“Then it’ll be your family, your kids and your life.”

Nava then dragged Mr Mouatt backwards by his collar and assaulted him, before holding a plastic shovel aloft over his head as if to strike the victim.

Mr Mouatt later told police: “I have no idea what he hit me with, how he hit me or how many times [he hit me].”

At yesterday’s sentencing, Nick Robinson, mitigating, said: “It is no coincidence that this murder set on process events which caused the defendant to become distraught.

“Old friends shunned him, he was constantly treated with anger and scorn.

“He felt he was going to be targeted because of his brother’s actions. He felt he would be deemed responsible because he was a twin. This man is not his brother.”

Sentencing Nava, Judge Peter Crabtree, acknowledged he had experienced a “particularly difficult year” because of his brother’s conviction.

But Judge Crabtree also stressed: “None of these victims were provocative towards you.”