Thug (18) faces £1,500 court bill over pub attack

A TEENAGER who launched an unprovoked attack on a man in a pub toilet has been fined more than £1,500 by the courts.

Kane Richardson (18) appeared at Rotherham Magistrates’ Court on June 24 for sentencing after admitting assaulting Jordan Walker at the Three Magpies pub in Brinsworth.

Richardson, of Normanville Avenue, Brinsworth, broke the victim’s nose during the assault in the pub’s toilet on October 16 last year.

The victim needed two operations on his nose.

At an earlier hearing Mr Steve Smith, mitigating, claimed the defendant attacked Mr Walker because he had mixed energy drinks and medication.

Mr Smith said: “He was in the process of having his (ADHD) medication changed as he became an adult and it was in the mix of that it would appear,” said Mr Smith.

Richardson had consumed an energy drink which “apparently” aggravated the medication he was taking at the time, Mr Smith added.

The magistrates handed Richardson a community order with a rehabilitation requirement, ordered him to carry out 150 hours unpaid work and pay £1,537 in compensation.