STOCK blackburn magistrates court..FOR WEB USE. A MAN who assaulted a 62-year-old shopkeeper on Christmas Day later suffered some street justice. Blackburn magistrates heard Jonathan Michael O Brien was attacked and his assailant later posted on facebook saying O Brien thought he was hard attacking a 62-year-old. The posting ended: pathetic little b , begging on the floor. O Brien, 37, of Pleasington Grove, Burnley, pleaded guilty to theft of a bottle of herbal schnapps from Warsi Foodstore and assaulting Sher Khan causing him actual bodily harm. He also pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly in Todmorden Road and two offences of shoplifting from Londis on Lyndhurst Road, Burnley. He was jailed for 16 weeks.