A TEENAGER has been left unable to smile properly after being scarred for life in a terrifying, unprovoked attack.

Muscles in the left side of Johnathan Holt’s face have been damaged and he has been left with deep gashes in his cheek after a drunken thug attacked him with a beer glass in his father’s pub.

The youth’s attacker, David Neild, aged 51, of Sevenoaks Drive, Great Lever, was jailed for 18 months at Bolton Crown Court on Friday after pleading guilty to unlawful wounding.

But Johnathan, aged 17, and his father, Joseph, aged 45, say the sentence should have been much longer, considering the life-long scars he will have to bear.

Johnathan, who was 16 at the time of the attack, said: “I don’t go out much now because there are always people coming up to me looking for fights and wanting to know how I got my scars.”

Johnathan was attacked in the Prince Rupert pub in Holmeswood Road, Great Lever, in February.

He had to have 32 stitches and spent four days in hospital.

Joeseph Holt, who is the landlord of the Prince Rupert, said: “I want justice. You can get four years for drug offences, but my son has been scarred for life."

For more on this story, see Friday's edition of the paper.