A Welsh construction worker has been jailed for 2.5 years after killing his colleague during a friendly game of ‘who can take the best punch?’.

Jason Thomas, 40, had been drinking and taking cocaine with Liam Morgan-Whittle, 22, at a friend’s house in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, when the two “started to boast about who could take a punch the best,” reports the BBC.

Thomas then punched his pal “twice in quick succession,” knocking him unconscious, and presumably violating the rules of the game because why is he punching twice in a row in a ‘punch-for-punch’ game?

Morgan-Whittle (below) sustained a bleed on his brain and then went into cardiac arrest from which he never recovered.

Prosecutor William Hughes KC told the court, “There came a point in the evening where they began a discussion which could be described as banter but became an increasingly aggressive argument as to who could take a punch better.”

Defense lawyer John Hipkin KC insisted Thomas “never intended that Liam Morgan-Whittle be seriously injured, let alone die. There was a punch-for-punch game the two had become involved in,” adding that his client “has struggled to cope with what he has done. His remorse is genuine.”

I’m sure his remorse is genuine, but obviously that’s no good for the family of Liam Morgan-Whittle who have now lost their son at just 22 years of age. It’s actually mental that Jason Thomas has only received 2.5 years for murdering a man, even if the blows were ‘consensual’ and everyone at the scene agrees that Thomas never in a million years thought his punches would kill Morgan-Whittle.

If there was ever an argument that Thomas should have received a harsher sentence, it’s the fact he threw that second punch. If he had killed Morgan-Whittle with one punch in a punch-for-punch game they had both agreed on (even while drunk and coked up), then maybe you can understand how light his sentence was. Did Morgan-Whittle know that second punch was coming? You’d think that was a crucial detail that doesn’t seem to be addressed in any the articles around the court case.

I guess the lesson here is that if you must play ‘who can take the best punch?’, make it a dead arm competition instead. Punching each other full on in the head? Utterly moronic beyond belief. RIP Liam Morgan-Whittle and thoughts with his friends and family.

To watch a dude knock out his brother’s girlfriend after he called him the N-word during an argument, click HERE.