Community order for swinging a punch in Telford
A man who swung a punch in a fight has been ordered to complete a community order.
Habib Mohammed, 20, admitted a charge of affray at Shrewsbury Crown Court on Monday.
After calling for a probation report overnight, Judge Graham Huston handed down a 12 month community order with an £85 victim surcharge.
He said the defendant would have to undertake a thinking skills programme.
He had been told that Mohammed, of Windsor Road, Arleston, Telford, was involved in the altercation in February last year, when he swung at another man.
The punch did not make contact with the complainant, the court was told, and he was not involved in a further fight in any other way.
Since the offence in February 2016, Mohammed had already served a month in custody, as well as a number of months on a curfew, monitored by an electronic tag.
He was also carrying out a community order for a separate offence, the court heard.
Recorder Graham Huston told Mohammed: “You have pleaded guilty to quite a serious offence but taking into account everything, I intend to continue and extend a community order you are currently serving."
Mohammed had been facing two other charges including assault occasioning actual bodily harm and driving whilst disqualified, but the prosecution offered no evidence for the assault charge and he was declared not guilty.
The driving charge will lie on his file.
