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An ice addict who helped create a government meth rehabilitation program four years ago has been jailed for beating a stranger with a golf club after relapsing.

Jamie Coyne was sentenced to three-and-a-half years behind bars after pleading guilty to doing an act or omission causing bodily harm at the Albany District Court, in Western Australia, this week. 

The 34-year-old helped set up the Ice Breakers methamphetamine rehabilitation program in 2015, which is backed by the state government, before later relapsing, Perth Now reported. 

He used ice in the 24-hours before the unprovoked assault in November 2018. 

Coyne approached the 47-year-old victim, who he did not know, while the man was chipping golf balls at the front of his Spencer Park

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