A TEENAGER who left a Grange-over-Sands barman needing two metal plates to repair a fractured jaw has been sent to a young offenders' institutions for six months.

Shane Lenihan, 19, attacked Gordon Wilson, who works at the Commodore pub, at the end of a hard day's drinking.

At Carlisle Crown Court, he pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm on him and to using threatening behaviour during an earlier incident in the Lancastrian pub.

The trouble happened on March 26 when Lenihan was visiting Grange-over-Sands to meet his father, who lives there, for the first time in several years.

The two men spent the whole day drinking, and in the evening went to the Lancastrian where they started arguing.

When the barman tried to calm them down, Lenihan threatened him with a glass.

On their way home, Lenihan met Mr Wilson, who had served him drinks in the Commodore earlier in the day.

He grabbed him, butted him to the ground and punched him, causing the injury to his face.

In mitigation, Greg Hoare said Lenihan, who lives in Birmingham, acted as he did partly because he had had so much to drink and partly because the longed-for meeting with his father had gone so wrong.

"He discovered his father had just a passing interest in him, and he hasn't seen him since that night," he said.

Recorder Barbara Forrester told Lenihan she would not be doing her public duty if she failed to send him to prison.

"The injury you caused was so serious that I can only deal with it by way of an immediate custodial sentence," she said.