A THUG who attacked a bouncer, a landlord and a schoolboy in a matter of weeks has been jailed for 14 months and banned from two Blackburn pubs.

Mark Moorcroft, 23, had punched the doorman then just over a fortnight later, he assaulted the pub landlord, inflicting two wounds.

He was arrested but two days after that hit an 11- year-old boy with a piece of wood and had been given a suspended prison sentence in the lower court, Burnley Crown Court heard.

The defendant, who was said to have turned his life around since the offences, admitted two charges of assault causing actual bodily harm.

Moorcroft, of St George’s Avenue, Blackburn, was also excluded from The Jubilee and Infirmary Hotel pubs.