A TEENAGER has been given an 80-hour community service order for attacking a man in Brighton Hill.
Andrew Vickery, 18, of Shepherd Road, Basingstoke, pleaded guilty to attacking Karl Wingvist as he walked home from a Brighton Hill chip shop with a woman friend, Coreen Daniels. The court heard that Vickery was with a group of up to 10 youths who verbally abused Miss Daniels as the couple walked through the Pig and Whistle pub car park. Afterwards, Vickery chased them and head-butted Mr Wingvist, giving him a cut lip and eyebrow and bruising his face.
Prosecutor Michelle Eames said the attack was totally unprovoked and added that Vickery also hit Mr Wingvist on the head with a bottle. Bob Penfold, defending, said Vickery admitted assaulting Mr Wingvist.
He said Vickery had been drinking and remembered talking to the couple but not chasing them or hitting Mr Wingvist with a bottle.
As well as the community service order, magistrates ordered Vickery to pay £75 compensation for the loss of Mr Wingvist's designer glasses during the attack and £15 for minor injuries, plus £55 court costs.
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