A man who armed himself with a machete caused a nightclub doorman to suffer a large fracture and an open wound on his arm.

Cameron Newton, 20, made chopping motions with the weapon towards the man at Dodge nightclub in Accrington, after he had been called there by another man who had been kicked out.

Burnley Crown Court also heard Newton, in a separate offence, interfered with a vehicle that had been stolen from a house in Padiham.

Both of these offences put Newton, of Fountains Way, Oswaldtwistle, in breach of a suspended sentence he received for possession of a bladed article in June 2021.

On November 5 of last year, Newton was involved in the theft of a red Volkswagen Golf.

The owner of the vehicle was returning home from work at around 3.40am and pulled up behind the car at a set of traffic lights in Green Lane, Padiham.

Recognising the car in front of him as his own, he began to follow it and called the police to inform them he was following his own stolen vehicle.

The car was brought to a halt when it drove over a grass verge into Pendle Street and crashed with a parked Ford Focus.

The owner conducted his own enquiries on social media and recovered footage which showed two males walking down the street he lived on, and footage of the car being driven.

A victim statement summarised in court said he was devastated and the car, a rare model, was his “pride and joy”.

The estimated value of the car was around £6,000 but due to its rarity, the cost of repairs to fix it after the crash was around £1,500.

The court then heard how on December 18 at around 2am, a man was escorted out of Dodge nightclub in Accrington due to a fight.

He made verbal threats to door staff during his removal and said he would return with more people.

Around half an hour later, he did so, with Newton among the group. He brandished a machete and the doorman feared he was going to kill him.

Newton made chopping motions towards the doorman which were blocked with his right arm, causing a fracture and an open wound.

He went to hospital for surgery and the court was told the arm has been painful every day since.

He now struggles with everyday tasks as well as his day job as a butcher.

The defendant was identified by the owner of the club from CCTV footage as well as a Snapchat video.

At the time of the offences, when Newton was 19, he was subject to a two-year youth rehabilitation order with supervision, as well as an 18-month prison sentence suspended for two years.

He was given 35 rehabilitation activity requirement days as part of that sentence, of which he had not completed any.

A community order imposed on him in November 2022 also ordered him to complete 60 hours of unpaid work, of which only seven have been completed.

Mitigating, Mark Stuart said the defendant’s nine months in custody so far have had a significant effect on him and he has become drug free.

Mr Stuart said his client “needed custody to bring him to his senses” and that his family “all describe him as a completely different person to the one that went into custody.”

Sentencing, Judge Sara Dodd said: “On November 5 you interfered with a vehicle. That was subsequently stolen.

"The loss to the victim is considerable in terms of a financial aspect but also peace of mind and security.

“Whilst on bail you involved yourself [in the second incident]. You were intoxicated when you took a machete to the scene and used it, causing considerable injury to your victim.

“At the time of both matters you were an immature 19-year-old. That, no doubt, was exacerbated by your use of the alcohol and drugs.

“You have taken steps in the months you have been in prison to address the underlying factors that have contributed to your criminal offending in the past.

"You are a very different man to the man who went into custody several months ago.”

Newton pleaded guilty to interfering with the vehicle as well as wounding, possession of a bladed article, and threatening with a bladed article.

Judge Dodd activated 15 months of the previous 18-month suspended sentence and ordered it to run consecutively with the other sentences.

Newton was sentenced to six years in prison overall.