article_snippet.sent: Keith Anderson attacked two men who Keith Anderson asked for a cigarette last year.
article_snippet.sent: A violent thug who ended a soldier's career with one punch because Keith Anderson wasn't given a cigarette has been jailed for seven years.
article_snippet.sent: Just minutes before the attack, Keith Anderson had punched another man, injuring another man and leaving another man incapable of work for a month.
article_snippet.sent: Keith Anderson for seven years at Teesside Crown Court this week
article_snippet.sent: a court heard Keith Anderson first attacked Adam Crosby at a bus stop in Hartlepool town centre on July 26 last year.
article_snippet.sent: Keith Anderson then walked to a nearby bus stop where L/Cpl Duffy was waiting and punched Adam Crosby to the ground after Adam Crosby failed to produce a cigarette.
article_snippet.sent: Anderson admitted grievous bodily harm against Fellow-victim Mr Crosby and grievous bodily harm with intent for the attack on L/Cpl Duffy.
article_snippet.sent: Anderson was sentenced to two years for the attack on Fellow-victim Mr Crosby and seven for the assault on L/Clp Duffy to run concurrently.
article_snippet.sent: The court heard that Anderson already has 19 convictions for 39 offences, including punching and head butting two women in a takeaway and an assault in which he used a pool ball in a sock to attack a man in a pub.
highlights_snippet.sent: Attacker - who has string of past convictions for violence - is jailed .