A TEENAGER’S dream of joining the Royal Navy is still intact after he was sentenced to a 12-month community order for breaking a pub window with a glass. Jack Norfolk, 18, of Emily Street, Haworth, was drunk when he smashed a window at the Ferrands Arms in Queen Street, Bingley, after midnight on Saturday, December 6.
He pleaded guilty to threatening behaviour and criminal damage and was ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work and pay £130 to cover the cost of repairing the window.
Norfolk’s barrister, Gerald Hendron, said he acted on impulsive when he took exception when seeing a woman being ejected from the pub and thrown up to 20 feet along the street. The teenager, who had no previous convictions, worked in the building trade.Recorder David Wilby QC said the community order was not a bar to Norfolk joining the Royal Navy.
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