A PUB regular launched a revenge attack after being banned from a town centre pub by the landlord.

And today licensees' representatives said safety measures introduced throughout East Lancashire helped ensure similar incidents were rare.

Blackburn magistrates heard that Michelle Denny Turner, 38, caused more than £460 worth of damage after pouring solvent through the letter box of the Buck Inn, Clitheroe, and over the landlord's Rover car.

But her late-night attack was caught on closed-circuit TV and, despite denying the offence, she was convicted of criminal damage after a trial.

Turner, of Market Place, Clitheroe, was made subject to a curfew order confining her to her home address between 10pm and 8am for the next three months. She was also ordered to pay £462 compensation.

Bill Maud, prosecuting, said Mr Adrian Youngman, licensee of the Buck Inn, Lowergate, detailed a number of incidents which lead him to complain about Turner's behaviour and eventually to bar her from the pub.

One morning in May he found that a liquid solvent had been poured through the letterbox of the pub and when he checked his car found that the same liquid had been poured over the paintwork.

Sian Hall, defending, said that when interviewed for a pre-sentence report Turner had expressed reluctance to be put on probation not because she was unwilling to comply but because of the physical difficulty it would cause her.

She said her client had suffered from anorexia during a prison sentence and that had left her with a crumbling spine which caused a great deal of pain. She would have to travel to Blackburn on the bus to complete a probation order and that would cause her a great deal of discomfort.

She also urged the magistrates to limit a curfew order so that it would not interfere with a the "trip of a lifetime" which Turner had planed for May. She said a friend since schooldays was planning to get married in Jamaica and Turner's mother had paid for her to join the celebrations.

"If she cannot go they will lose the £900 which has already been paid," said Miss Hall.

A worker at the Buck Inn today said Mr Youngman had left the pub and the Clitheroe area more than six months ago and is thought to be running a pub in the Liverpool area.

Geoff Sutcliffe, secretary of Blackburn and District Licensed Victualler's Association, said that vendettas by barred customers against pub landlords were not common.

He said: "This sort of thing is not a very common outcome thankfully.

"Everyone has different ways of barring customers and there are no set-guidelines about how to do it.

"But if there is a Pubwatch scheme and there is one that is particularly bad then we can get together and bar them from all the pubs."