A man punched a teenage boy multiple times before going on to beat two other children in a separate drunken attack.
Craig Raine launched an attack on a boy who was under the age of 16 after he "lost it", and punched him in the face after dragging him and pinning him to the floor on March 23 this year. Three months later, the 40-year-old carried out a similar offence, this time beating two younger children on June 17 as they played in a garden.
On Friday, Raine, of County Durham, appeared at Durham Crown Court to be sentenced for wounding and two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He pleaded guilty to the charges at a previous hearing.
