Court Reporter
Exeter Crown Court
- Credit: Archant
A man who took part in a mass brawl on Bideford Quay has been spared an immediate jail sentence after he suffered a serious head injury in a second incident on the same night.
Charlie Lance kicked and punched a helpless man who was on the ground in the stairwell of public conveniences near the Lundy Office on the afternoon of December 30, 2019.
He suffered a significant head injury in an apparently unrelated assault elsewhere in Bideford a couple of hours later.
He needed specialist neurological treatment in hospital and has been left with epilepsy, Exeter Crown Court was told.