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The mother of a teenager kicked unconscious in the street has expressed 'total outrage' at the jail term given to her son's attackers.
Liam Nagle, 25, and Megan Allen, 22, have been jailed for 32 weeks after they kicked and stamped on their victim outside a nightclub.
Their victim was left unable to work for a month as he nursed a broken jaw after being set upon outside Oxygen nightclub off Swansea's Kingsway.
Swansea Crown Court heard that Nagle had originally acted as a "peacemaker" when a fracas erupted inside the club.
But as the conflict became more fierce he and Allen both found themselves involved, eventually chasing down a young man and kicking him repeatedly on the floor.
Nagle was on bail for possessing cannabis and carrying a bladed item and had a history of battery, while Allen was on licence and had been before the courts 17 times for 34 offences.
Judge Paul Thomas QC described the attack as "vicious" and said he had "never seen a worse record for assaulting police" than that of Allen.
The victim's mother, Melanie Penk, has hit out at the 32-week jail term handed out to both her son's attackers.
The mum-of-four, 45, who is a support worker for youngsters with disabilities, fears the pair will be walking the streets in 18 weeks as they could serve only half the time in custody for good behaviour.
She said the Crown Prosecution Service failed to consult her son when accepting the pair's guilty plea to a lesser offence of assault, termed as "unlawful wounding" or "inflicting grievous bodily harm."
Mrs Penk, of Swansea, said she was stunned at the length of the sentence and said the family had been given to understand it would be far longer.
Her son was just 19 when he has attacked.
She said: "The whole thing is a shambles — I feel just total outrage. The sentencing has upset my son as he feels it was a waste of time to go to court in the first place.
"I am disappointed about the way we have been let down by the system. I have written a complaint to the CPS.
"There was video evidence that was seen by everyone and shared by social media.
"We were prepared for a week's trial to be told by the CPS they were going to accept the plea on the section 20 offence. This is a section 18 serious assault, we had the court date was earlier this month and we had four witnesses (sections 18 and 20 are different categories of serious assault).
"We weren't asked whether we wanted to do it and haven't been kept in the loop over what's happening.
"This outcome, I can't come to terms with it — they could be out in 18 weeks. People are so outraged at this. There is a lot of strong feeling about this."
She rejected claims made during the hearing at Swansea Crown Court that Nagle had acted as a "peacemaker".
Nagle's defence said the defendant had not been involved in the fracas leading up to the attack and had only joined in when someone punched him.
Mrs Penk said: "They said Liam Nagle was the 'peacemaker' but what did he do to stop it? He swiped my son's legs and he ended up on the ground and they kicked him in. The girl stamped and stamped on his head."
She said the incident, which happened on June 20 of last year, has had a major impact on her 20-year-old son and that he had only returned to work in recent weeks.
"It's been really hard," she said.
"It's been a tough to be honest. It's taken a while for him to go out to town."
Nagle of Spring Road, Bedford, and Allen of Westbourne, Islington, were both visiting Swansea.
The Crown Prosecution Service has been asked to comment.
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