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A TEENAGER who struck out with


• a beer glass in a crowded Clitheroe pub has’harrowly avoided spending 10


' months behind bars. At Preston Crown Court this week,


- Byron Hayton was sentenced to 44 weeks i in custody, but the sentence was suspend­ ed for two years, with a two-year supervi-


.'siori order and 150 hours of unpaid work' ;■ to be completed. : Hayton (18), of Long Close,.Clitheroe, was also told his sentence would include a 13-week curfewl requiring him to be at his


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. home address by 8-30 p.m. every night and stay there until 6 a.m. the following morning. ■


The crown court heard that Hayton had struck a man to the side of the face inside


• ,The Castle' p u b,'• Clitheroe. Several months earlier there had apparently been


■''an altercation between the same two men. ' The injured man, Luke Sharpies, sus­ tained a number of cuts to the face in the


' early hdursbf New Year’s Day. Hayton '-'pleaded guilty to a charge of actual bodily


- harm assault; The court was told that Mr. ^ Sharpies was out socialising with a group fof friends. As he was driving that night, he ' ■


was not drinking and was fully sober., ; fe.'Mr Roger, Green (prosecuting) said


. there had been an altercation between the two men several months earlier. As he was preparing to leave the pub, Mr Sharpies


; walked past where the defendant was standing, which was next to a juke box. Hayton was' holding an empty half-pint


glass in his right hand. As the other man came near, Hayton moved in close and started rubbing: his forehead against the side of Mr Sharpies’head. •


. Mr Green told the court: “He then - punched him (Mr Sharpies) once to the head. There was a second punch some­ where on the body.


, .“According to ^S h a rp ie s , an acquain­ tance of the defendant grabbed hold of Mr Sharpies, who then grabbed the defendant in self-defence. The defendant struck him


‘ on the left side of the face with the hand ' holding the glass. This caused a number of cuts to the face.’’.,


. Mr Sharpies was taken to another room where a member of the bar staff helped to


> clean him up. He apparently did not seek any further medical treatment and carried on being the driver for his friends. ■. .■ In a'police interview, Hayton said he


V was ■with a friend who had started ,“kick- ';.ing off’’; He suggested th a t he and Mr . Sharpies had both started “going for each other”.


But he added: “I could not believe I had,


glassed him. I regret it now so much.” . . ' The teenager had no previous convic­


tions. ■ : Mr Richard Beimett (defending) said a


fight had started between the two after there had been some potential for an alter­ cation between Mr Sharpies and one of the defendant’s friends.


- ' : “I t wasn't a deliberate glassing, but one


which occured in the course of a fight. It was in the context of a fight rather than


- time.


: an unprovoked attack. He had hold of the glass, so th a t no-one would pinch his drink. The pub was very packed at the ' '


“The defendant is not a young man of ■violent propensity,” Mr Bennett told the


■ judge. “He has no previous convictions at all.” ■' Hayton had been assessed by the Pro-


: bation Service as presenting a low risk of re-offending. •


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- Passing sentence. Judge Norman Wright told the teenager: “I accept this was not a deliberate glassing, in the sense


; of someone using a broken glass or bottle- ! to cause injury. You didn't arm yourself in i defence. You used a weapon ip a public


i ■' house. I feel I can suspend the inevitable custodial sentence.”..^'■


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