A TEENAGER swung punches at a doorman after being thrown out of a Clitheroe pub, Blackburn magistrates heard.

Daniel Thomas Munn, 19, continued to struggle with police officers outside the White Lion, in Market Place, as they took him to the ground.

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Munn, of Castle View, Clitheroe, was given an electronic tag and subjected to a curfew between 9pm and 6am after pleading guilty to using threatening behaviour.

The court was told that the doorman in the incident , which happened in the early hours of New Year’s Day, was pushing Munn away to avoid blows.

Peter King, defending, said his client was doing a music production course at Preston College and had been trying hard to keep out of trouble because he knew it could affect his future.

He said Munn had been talking to a girl inside the pub when another man came over and started pushing him.

“He pushed him back and then found himself ejected from the pub. On the way out he banged into the door frame and he blamed the bouncers for that.”

Passing sentence, District Judge James Clarke said the incident had gone from an exchange of words to an exchange of blows.

He said: “Drunken street violence regularly sees people suffering injuries and being taken to hospital and the perpetrators going to prison.”

Munn was also ordered to pay £60 costs.