A security guard needed hospital treatment after a shop robber attacked him while stealing a pack of lager.
Liam Rolfe repeatedly punched the worker at the B&M store in Southwick, Sunderland, hit the back of his head with a can, tried to bite his ear, pushed his finger into his eye and threatened to kill him during the terrifying raid. Newcastle Crown Court heard the victim had to be taken to hospital and needed seven stitches to a split scalp after the attack.
Prosecutor Rachael Glover told the court Rolfe had gone into the store, from which he was already banned for shoplifting, on October 3 last year and was told to leave by the guard. But Rolfe then picked up a ten-pack of lager and told him: "I'm going to have one of these."
