A TEENAGER who glassed a man in a pub has been spared jail after a judge accepted it was an act of madness.
Recorder David Manley, QC, told Nicholas Sinclair, 19, he could not have complained if he had been sent to prison but he accepted the offence was an act of madness and completely out of character.
Sinclair, of Princess Street, Colne, was given 150 hours community punishment and was told to pay £1,000 compensation. He had been convicted by a jury of assaulting Peter Compston, causing him actual bodily harm. He had no previous convictions.
Tim Storrie, defending, said Sinclair had used a weapon and he fully understood the courts were on their guard against such violence in the pubs and nightclubs of towns such as Burnley.
Mr Storrie said the defendant's momentary loss of control had had a serious impact on him and the way he conducted himself.
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