A YOUTH has been cleared of attacking a father of four, but has owned up to assaulting a teenager.
Paul Workman, 18, was found not guilty of wounding David Trickett with intent to do him grievous bodily harm and an allegation of affray by a Burnley Crown Court jury, on the direction of Judge Raymond Bennett.
The defendant admitted one count of common assault on the second day of a trial and was conditionally discharged for 12 months.
The jury was discharged from returning a verdict on a second assault charge. Workman, of Swinshaw Close, Loveclough, had denied all the counts.
The jury had heard claims that Workman hit Mr Trickett over the head so hard with a bottle it broke and was later alleged to have assaulted two teenagers.
The court was told Mr Trickett and his family had been plagued by local youths congregating in the doorway of their converted shop home and had been subjected to abuse.
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