A pregnant woman lost her unborn baby after she was deliberately kicked in the stomach by a pub drinker during a Valentines' Day altercation, a jury was told.
Roger Bygrave, 37, had been drinking at the Market House Inn, located in Dartmouth, Devon, when he was told by a member of staff that he could not take his glass outside on February 14 last year.
The pub-goer 'gave the finger' to the staff before walking outside with his beverage, where he was confronted by the landlord and others, a court heard.
Prosecutor Adrian Chaplin said the pregnant woman, who had spoken to the defendant during the night, went outside to use her own barmaid experience to 'calm things down' when she was kicked in the abdomen by Bygrave.
The expectant mother, who was 28-weeks pregnant, had to undergo an emergency Caesarian operation, but her baby daughter was stillborn.
Bygrave, from Dartmouth, who is on trial at Plymouth Crown Court after claiming he acted in self-defence, has pleaded not guilty to child destruction.
Roger Bygrave, 37, from Dartmouth, Devon, kicked the pregnant woman in the stomach and caused her to lose he baby during a Valentine's Day altercation last year
On the day of the attack, prosecutor Adrian Chaplin told Plymouth Crown Court that Bygrave had downed around ten pints of cider.
He later took a glass outside the pub before he was challenged by a member of staff who told him the drink should be in a plastic glass.
The member of staff then went outside with a plastic cup and Bygrave poured his cider into it.
The barrister played several CCTV clips which showed Bygrave, who was with his young nephew, then confronting a group of people outside the venue before the pregnant woman tried to intervene.
Mr Chaplin said that the pregnant woman - who had spoken to the defendant through the night - was trying to 'calm things down'.
He added that she admitted striking him to the face and he said the footage showed he immediately kicked her in the stomach.
The footage then showed her walk away and crouch in the street before being helped back into the pub.
One member of the staff at the Market House Inn said: 'He kicked her in the bottom of the stomach as if he was kicking in a door.'
Adrian Chaplin, opening the case for the Crown Prosecution Service, said that the pregnant woman had slapped Bygrave first.
He said: 'The prosecution case is that in
