A drunk pub customer assaulted three women and two men after turning violent when he was ejected from a pub.
Nathan Burns was asked to leave The Waterloo, in Blyth, for making a nuisance of himself in November last year and when the female bar manager tried to usher him out, he resisted. Newcastle Crown Court heard he then warned her "if you want to ring the police, I will give you something to ring them about."
He then pulled out some keys and threaded one between his fingers and swung a punch at her. She took evasive action but was struck in the stomach, the key putting a hole in her T shirt and scratching her skin. She said in a victim impact statement she could have been seriously injured.
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That led to a number of other people coming out to help and Burns ran at one woman and struck her to the chest, causing her to fall back and hit her head on the ground. She suffered bruising and grazing and tenderness to the back of her head. She was left frightened, shocked and distressed.
Burns, who was shouting "I'm going to f****** kill you," was approached by three or four men, who tried to calm him down. One man put his hand out to stop his friend being hit and suffered a puncture wound to his arm.
Police then turned up and Burns approached them aggressively. He kicked a female officer in the leg as she tried to arrest him, causing bruising and reddening. She described his behaviour as "completely unacceptable". He then headbutted a PCSO twice in the forehead.
Burns, 36, of Esher Place, Cramlington, Northumberland, pleaded guilty to threatening another with an offensive weapon, three counts of common assault and two counts of assaulting an emergency worker. He was sentenced to 16 months suspended for 18 months with a curfew, 100 hours unpaid work and must pay £425 costs and was banned from going to that pub for five years.
Richard Bloomfield, defending, said: "He had been self-isolating and it was the first time he had been out since the pandemic and he had been taking anti-depressants. He didn't realise the lady telling him to leave was the bar manager. He had never been there before.
"He is in employment. The lesson learned is not to take so much drink you don't exercise your judgement properly."
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