A TEENAGER has been cleared of a night club bottle attack which was said to have left another youth injured.

Jamie Brown, 19, was found not guilty of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm and an alternative lesser charge of unlawful wounding after a week-long trial at Burnley Crown Court.

The defendant, of Hawthorn Place, Clitheroe, had denied both charges.

Brown, who has no criminal convictions, was discharged from the dock by Judge Christopher Cornwall.

The jury had heard claims the 17-year-old complainant - who cannot be named for legal reasons - had been left injured and bleeding and was taken away in an ambulance after a night out at The Works, Burnley, ended in violence.

The prosecution had alleged Brown had been responsible for an unprovoked attack, but his barrister told the court the 17-year-old's friends had been looking for trouble.

Tim Storrie, defending, said Brown had ended up with a broken nose after trying to be peacemaker.

Mr Storrie said there had been hostilities between Brown's group and the complainant's friends that night. Brown had been forced to quell the tensions and had intervened to calm things down.

The barrister said the 17-year-old was hit accidentally when Brown had to defend himself as another youth butted him. The complainant's friends, he said, had been offering threats and being abusive.

Mr Storrie claimed the 17-year-old had "woven a tale " around photographs taken from the club's CCTV camera.