Brute attacked pub customers

A THUG assaulted two pub customers and made “threats of violence” towards the manager outside a popular Newcastle bar.

Steven Hewitt pushed a man and slapped a woman during a confrontation near the Cluny pub, in Ouseburn, one night in November last year.

A court was told the 41-year-old also made threats of violence towards the bar’s manager and threw a metal chair at one of the victims, which missed.

Hewitt, of Shields Road, Byker, was arrested but claimed he had been attacked by the two victims.

However, during a hearing at North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court he pleaded guilty to two counts of assault by beating and a string of other separate offences.

During the court hearing on Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to two public order offences and a further assault from October 18, 2017.

On that occasion, he grabbed and kissed a woman’s hand as she was walking on Shields Road, in Byker, before telling another female “I would love to f*** a Polish woman all night”.

Mark Humble, mitigating, said alcohol had played a major part in all Hewitt’s offending.

“In relation to the two victims at the Cluny, there was no injuries to speak of,” he said.

Hewitt was jailed for a total of 26 weeks for the four public order offences and the assault from Shields Road.

For the two assaults outside the Cluny, he was given a conditional discharge.