Tyldesley: Pub patron attacked barmaid, customers and police

Ryan Daltrey, 30, subjected fellow patrons at a pub on Elliott Street, Tyldesley to the “terrifying” scenes on July 8 this year.

Bolton Crown Court heard how it had all started when he tried to walk away with a pint of beer without paying and was challenged by a woman working behind the bar.

Prosecutor Andrew Macintosh said: “As she did, the defendant started to have a go at her, threw a pint over her and shouted at her.”

Daltrey then pushed the woman by back behind the bar by her throat and went to pour himself more beer from the taps.

The case was heard at Bolton Crown Court (Image: Newsquest)

A victim impact read out by Mr Macintosh said: “I ran for help as I could not win against a big man and a barstool.”

Daltrey then got into further fights and arguments with other customers and at one point threw a barstool.

CCTV footage played to the court showed the violent scenes that erupted that evening.

By the time the police arrived they saw Daltrey, of Lancaster Avenue, running out the back.

When they eventually caught up with him Daltrey resisted arrested and in the ensuing struggle both a police officer and the defendant himself were injured.

Daltrey, who has 10 previous convictions for 14 offences including wounding and kidnapping was eventually arrested and charged.

When brought before the magistrates court he pleaded guilty to intentional strangulation, assault, theft, affray and assaulting an emergency service worker.

Niamh McGinty, defending, accepted that Daltrey’s female victim had been right to act how she did.

She said: “She was entirely within her rights to ask him to leave when he failed to pay and he recognises that.”

She added: “Once he recognised that his hand was on her throat he moved it swiftly down to the chest area.”

Ms McGinty also said that Daltrey’s assault on the police officer had come about “perhaps accidentally” when he was resisting arrest.

She said: “Clearly he was not thinking rationally, at the time these offences were committed under the influence of alcohol.”

But she said that Daltrey, who had set up his own tyre business, still showed a “realistic prospect of rehabilitation.”

But Recorder Jon Close reminded the defendant, who he addressed directly in the dock, of how “terrifying” the events that unfolded after Daltrey refused to pay for his pint must have been.

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He said: “You had no right to take that, she was well within her rights to ask for that pint back, she was well within her rights to ask you to leave.”

He added: “You were belligerent, childish and then moved to bullying.

“It must have been absolutely terrifying and all because you wanted your pint and woe betide anyone who wouldn’t let you have what you wanted.”

Recorder Close also said that Daltrey had shown a “troubling lack of insight” into his behaviour.

He sentenced him to a total of 15 months in prison.