A doorman who pursued a customer up the street and left him with a fractured jaw has been locked up.
Christopher Rowland-Jones denied wounding and assault charges but had been convicted at an earlier hearing.
The 28 year old of Bryn Crug, Dyserth , was jailed for 18 months at Mold Crown Court, but he was cleared of possessing a knife during the incident.
His brother – said to have started the chain of events off – admitted assault and affray and received a 12 month sentence suspended for a year, with supervision, 180 hours unpaid work, and a three month tagged curfew.
Wesley Rowland-Jones, 21, of Bryn Dedwydd, Bodelwyddan , was also ordered to pay £700 compensation and £1,200 costs.
The judge, Mr Recorder John Philpotts, said that a group of friends had been enjoying a night out, sitting around a table at Archie’s Bar in Prestatyn , on September 6 last year.
Wesley Rowland-Jones began a sequence of events that was to lead he and his brother to the crown court.
One of the victims, Daniel Moore, was in the group watching a golf tournament on a television above the defendant’s head in the bar.
The defendant falsely believed that he was looking at him, approached him aggressively and delivered a light head butt which fortunately caused no injury.
Staff became involved to prevent him from continuing his wholly unjustifiable attack and during the scuffle Wesley Rowland-Jones struck another member of the group, a number of times.
Brother Christopher Rowland-Jones was working there as a doorman that night – and the victim’s group were ejected “with considerable force” despite the fact that they were the innocent victims.
But unfortunately it did not end there, the judge said.
The group left but the brothers followed them and confronted them further along the High Street.
There was then a further attack upon them when Wesley Rowland-Jones punched a third youth to the face and both pursued him into a nearby residential area.
They did not catch him and fortunately were not able to attack him further, but they turned their attention to other members of the group.
'Was throwing his weight around'
Still not satisfied with the violence they had already inflicted, Wesley Rowland-Jones approached another youth demanding to know the name of the youth they had just chased.
When he refused to give it, in order to protect his friend, he was punched in the face which caused him to fall. He struck his head which caused a wound which needed to be glued and he was also injured to the elbow.
Meanwhile, Christopher Rowland-Jones confronted Daniel Moore, the original victim of the attack in the bar. When he refused to give the other youth’s name, he was struck without warning to the jaw.
“This was a sustained incident of significant and serious violence,” the judge said. “It began on licensed premises and continued in a public place.
He said that Wesley Rowland-Jones started it off “throwing his weight about” and the judge said that he was suspicious that his claimed genuine remorse was more self-pity.
Andrew Downey, for Wesley Rowland-Jones, said that his client suffered anxiety and depression and had been upset every minute of every conference he had with him.
Despite what was said in his pre-sentence report he felt genuine remorse, was extremely sorry and crushed by guilty. It had a significant physical and mental affect upon him.
“This is a good lad who did a very bad thing one night. That is the reality,” said Mr Downing. “He apologises to each and every one of them.”
Simon Killeen, for Christopher Rowland-Jones, said that he was a man of no previous convictions and asked if a custodial sentence was avoidable?
He would never work as a doorman again, the offences were over a year old, his life had moved on and his risk of re-conviction was low.
His client intended to work in the retail industry and in the short term would stay home to look after the children while his wife, who had qualifications in film and photography and was involved in film production, became the main bread winner.
Victim Mr Moore attended court to read his own victim impact statement to the judge.
He said that he could not understand why it had happened to him.
During the night he was assaulted by two people and his jaw was broken in two places.
At the time he was upset and in a lot of pain.
“It was a completely unprovoked attack,” he explained.
He had to undergo surgery to fix the jaw with titanium plates and wires.
The plates would have to remain, it took ten weeks to heal but his jaw would never be the same as it was before.
He had to eat through a straw for six weeks and lost a lot of weight.
It came as he was completing his apprenticeship and caused a lot of inconvenience with work.
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