A woman was knocked out by a man swinging his girlfriend’s crutch around in what a judge described as a scene like something from the “Wild West”.
Simon Wakelin punched and kicked out at three women in the Llandudno Mostyn Street shop, claiming they’d been aggressive to his fiancee, whose crutch he grabbed.
Prosecutor Emmalyne Downing told Mold Crown Court that Wakelin, a scaffolder, started fighting the woman, throwing punches before he was pushed away by a doorman.
He later returned, picked up the crutch and started swinging it the woman and through the ceiling tiles.
One of the women blacked out and lost consciousness.
Wakelin, 26, denied using the crutch as a weapon in the incident, and was spared immediate jail by Judge Rhys Rowlands.
He said what happened was “totally disgraceful behaviour which he said was like something from the Wild West, with Wakelin lashing out with his fists and swinging the crutch around.
As a result, three woman suffered injuries and one was knocked out.
Defending barrister Sion ap Mihangel said Wakelin, from Weoley Castle in Birmingham, had been on holiday at the time of the January 24 incident.
He said he was a man of good character and accepted that he had gone over the top to protect his partner, who was on crutches because she was recovering from a hip replacement operation.
He was very sorry for the way that he had behaved and admitted the affray.
Wakelin was a reliable and hard worker and a reference showed that he adopted a positive attitude to work colleagues and helped train apprentices, he said.
He was given a ten month prison sentence suspended for two years and ordered to carry out 200 hours unpaid work.
He was ordered to pay £400 to one victim and £250 each to the other two, and Judge Rowlands ordered him to pay £250 costs and a £100 surcharge.
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