FOUR days after an early release from a sentence of five months in a young offenders' institution for affray Steven Chandler was back before Harrogate magistrates yesterday - for affray.
The court heard how while on bail for a late-night attack on bus staff, Chandler had used a bottle as a weapon outside a nightclub in King's Road, Harrogate.
Off-duty police officer Nicholas Lawrence, stationed at South Tyneside, had seen the incident in which Chandler, 19, had attacked another man, chased him across the street and then hit him with a bottle.
When hotel worker Chandler, of Kennion Road, Harrogate, admitted affray his solicitor Paul Norton urged the court not to send him back inside. He had had an initial six-week taste of life there and was a changed man.
He had been released last Friday under a home detention and curfew order and was determined not to offend again, he said.
Court chairman Jane Garlick told Chandler that while his offence was serious he would not put back in custody.
Chandler was made subject to a 12-month community rehabilitation order and told to abide by a 7pm-7am curfew for two months. Costs of £70 were also imposed.
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