A drunk pub customer assaulted three women and two men after turning violent when he was ejected from a pub.
Nathan Burns was asked to leave The Waterloo, in Blyth, for making a nuisance of himself in November last year and when the female bar manager tried to usher him out, he resisted. Newcastle Crown Court heard he then warned her "if you want to ring the police, I will give you something to ring them about."
He then pulled out some keys and threaded one between his fingers and swung a punch at her. She took evasive action but was struck in the stomach, the key putting a hole in her T shirt and scratching her skin. She said in a victim impact statement she could have been seriously injured.
