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Man must pay £5,000 to victim of club attack

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A 20-year-old man who floored a nightclubber with a single punch, leaving him unconscious and needing surgery for a broken jaw, has been ordered to pay his victim £5,000 compensation.

Leicester Crown Court heard Farron Browne, of Leyland Road, Braunstone Town, had admitted at an earlier hearing delivering the blow to the man's left cheek at Republic nightclub, in Sandacre Street, Leicester, on July 29 last year.

The court heard the victim needed two sessions of surgery to insert metal plates to help repair both sides of his jaw, which were fractured in the attack.

The court was shown CCTV of an incident leading up to the attack in which the man was seen speaking to Browne while he danced in the club. James Bide-Thomas, prosecuting, said: "There was an incident after that, caught on CCTV, which the complainant doesn't remember, in which the defendant appeared to follow him to another part of the club and aimed a head butt at him."

He added that minutes later Browne walked up to the man and delivered a single punch to his left cheek, causing him to fall to the ground unconscious.

He said the complainant suffered a fracture of the jaw on both sides and had to undergo two sessions of surgery.

When Browne was interviewed he denied attacking anyone and said he had a broken jaw himself at the time.

Defending, Steven Newcombe said: "It was clearly a significant injury. It's his first time before a criminal court. He is a highly-regarded young man in the local community where he coaches and tutors people younger than him at football.

"He accepts that during the incident he was clearly in drink in a club late at night. It has had a salutary effect on him – he has stopped drinking completely since the incident.

"The extent of the harm was more than he anticipated when he took the decision to deliver this single blow."

Judge Philip Head told Browne: "You were clearly the worse for drink, you were holding two bottles while you were dancing. Your victim apparently said something to you and, as he walked away, you attempted to head butt him.

"It was yet another example of drunken nightclub violence under the influence of drink. Decent people who go out in town have to see and suffer the sort of behaviour the likes of you engage in when you are drunk."

As well as paying £5,000 compensation to his victim, Browne was sentenced to 11 months in a Young Offenders Institute, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to carry out 210 hours of unpaid work in the next 12 months.

He was also ordered to be electronically tagged for four months and placed under a 7pm to 5am curfew. Browne was banned from entering any club, pub, bar or restaurant for six months and ordered to pay £500 costs.

Man must pay  £5,000 to victim of club attack


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