A teenager has escaped jail after smashing a wine bottle over his victim's head following a row on a train. Marcus Maunder, 18, a warehouse worker from Bolton, was with friends when he got into an argument with another group after they boarded a train at Liverpool’s Lime Street station.
Maunder, who was drinking from a bottle of wine and had his feet on the seat opposite, was abusive to one of the girls in the other group after a dispute about bags piled on a seat as the train headed towards Bolton. A court heard the language Maunder used was 'frankly disgusting'.
Liverpool Crown Court heard today (Friday) that the girls gave the defendant a hard time about his attitude and their male companions, Gary Tomlinson and James Ruddock, 'began to stare at him which made him feel uncomfortable'.
