TWO teenagers who were involved in a “usual pathetic” drunken brawl on Bridge Street have escaped jail sentences.

Christopher Devine, aged 18, of Whitebeam Close, Windmill Hill and Dean Wilcox aged 19 of Weymouth Road, Burtonwood appeared at Manchester Crown Court on July 1 after admitting affray.

The court heard the men left bar 53 degrees at around 2am on January 21 with friends and met a group of drunken men.

Wilcox admitted pushing and shoving some of them.

Wilcox said that he ran off because he was on bail for another crime.

The court heard, in October last year Wilcox found out that his girlfriend had slept with someone else and went round to the person’s house to fight him. However, he wasn’t there so he punched the man who opened the door.

Meanwhile, Devine admitted kicking one of the victims while he was the ground outside the Bridge Street bar and admitted making a few punches.

Judge Stephen Clarke, said: “It seems to me all of the men were drunk. It’s the usual sodding, pathetic story. It just makes you want to despair doesn’t it? I am afraid it’s an all too familiar situation.

“You were all finding fault in each other. This sort of scene scares people from going out at night.”

Devine was given an 80 hour community order and had to pay prosecution costs of £350.

Wilcox was given a 24 week prison sentence suspended for two years and was ordered to pay £500 compensation to the complainant who he punched in October.