A TEENAGER who fractured another young man's jaw in two places has been sentenced to 150 hours community service.
David Rees, 18, swung out with a cricket bat after a group of youths went to cause trouble at a house and he himself was hit.
Rees, of Kay View, Darwen, had admitted a wounding offence. He was also told to pay £656 costs by a Preston Crown Court judge.
Recorder Raymond Herman said had it not been for the victim going there to cause trouble, Rees would have received a custodial sentence. He told Rees: "You are not someone with a natural instinct to commit crime."
Rees had no previous convictions.
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