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Watch as a sacked Coventry bus driver smashed up a pub after losing his job - with his one-man £9,000 wrecking spree caught on CCTV.

Martin Lewis, 56, snapped as he sat alone after being sacked by bus company bosses for “not knowing the roads well enough”.

Frustrated Lewis was caught on the pub’s CCTV as he caused “an incredible amount of damage” to the Stag Pub in Treorchy, Rhondda, when he returned there after losing his job.

Moments after he was sitting alone quietly sipping from a beer glass, CCTV footage showed the Lewis start throwing chairs, tables and bottles.

A court heard how he broke the leg from a bar stool before hurling it at a flatscreen TV.

The raging reveller then repeatedly throws a bottle at the expensive television - cracking it into pieces.

After knocking over the screen Lewis continues to fling furniture around the pub, breaking windows and lights as he was alone in the bar.

A court heard drunk Lewis caused £9,000 worth of damage after breaking three flatscreen TVs, door frames and bottles of alcohol in the 15-minute rampage.

Prosecutor Rachel Knight said: “He caused damage to just about everything that was not nailed down. An incredible amount of damage was caused.

“The bar manager said it was completely out of the blue. He went outside to call 999 and the rampage continued. He said he didn’t know what the defendant was going to do next.”

Pub manager Nazmul Sumon said: “It is so sad because we didn’t have any argument at all.

“Apparently he had gone crazy and he just came in and started smashing up the place.

“We are almost back to normal but it hit me hard as I had to pay for the damage on my credit card.

“We are not 100 per cent now as some things are still damaged.”

Lewis, of Treorchy, South Wales, said “everything was a blur” after he lost his job driving buses in Coventry.

He had downed five or six pints in the early evening session before flying into his rage.

And then three days later, while on bail, Lewis attacked a local JobCentre after his benefits didn’t arrive on time.

He pulled out a hammer to shatter windows in Treorchy Job Centre causing £12,000 worth of damage - again throwing around desks and chairs.

Defence barrister Steven Thomas said: “He is totally devastated and ashamed of himself and deeply regrets what he did.

“He accepts what he did was a very immature way of dealing with the matter. This was a cry for help.”

Lewis was jailed for 18 months after admitting criminal damage at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court.

Judge Christopher Llewellyn-Jones QC: “You said that you were depressed because of a shortage of money so it is ironic that you were in a pub spending money at that time.”