A JUDGE yesterday criticised bars which offer an admission only charge with all drinks free.
Judge Peter Bowers was told that call centre worker Jonnie Kingh drank 15 to 20 vodkas before he attacked a stranger with a glass.
Kingh, 20, was ordered to pay £1,200 compensation to James Paul Lowrie for the attack in a Darlington nightspot.
The judge said at Teesside Crown Court: "On the basis of what he said, he probably had 15 to 20 vodkas. It certainly was an enormous amount.
"It was a bar which charged for admissions with unlimited drinks.
"I don't think it is a good idea and I question whether it contributes to drunken violence."
Kingh told police that he was drunk at the time of the attack, said prosecutor Richard Cowen.
Aisha Wadoodi, defending, said that Kingh had been spending his first pay packet from his new employer, Orange, from where he was later made redundant.
Kingh, of Brunton Street, Darlington, was ordered to perform 100 hours community punishment and two years' community rehabilitation after he pleaded guilty to the unlawful wounding charge.
The judge told him: "You have got to curb your drinking. I can't begin to understand why you attacked this innocent man."
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