Man sentenced for street attack

A 19-year-old has been sent to youth custody for a street attack which left his victim's body penetrated by shards of glass from a broken window in Devon.

Keiron Lonnen, from Pilton Causeway in Barnstaple, was sentenced to three-and-a-half-years for the attack on Cameron Bremner in the town in February.

Lonnen had earlier pleaded guilty to causing Mr Bremner actual bodily harm.

The court was told Lonnen punched Mr Bremner in the face, causing him to fall through a shop window.

Your record shows that when you have been out drinking you are spoiling for a fight Judge Jeremy Griggs

"It is only good fortune that Mr Bremner was not killed by the shards of glass which penetrated his body," Judge Jeremy Griggs, at Exeter Crown Court, told Lonnen.

Prosecutor Emily Pitts said the 19-year-old was traced because his mobile phone had fallen into the shop window.

The court heard that eight of Lonnen's 25 previous convictions were for violence.

The judge said he had ignored previous chances and had gone back to drinking with his friends and being involved in violence.

"Your record shows that when you have been out drinking you are spoiling for a fight," he added.

Oliver Carlyon, defending, said Lonnen was full of remorse for what had happened.