A TEENAGER who carried out an unprovoked attack on a newly-married man visiting his home town with his Korean bride has received a suspended prison sentence.

Dylan Jenkyns was among a group of youths loitering near the entrance of a Tesco store, in Chester-le-Street, in the early evening of July 27, last year.

Durham Crown Court heard that Jenkyns carried out the attack as the stranger was about to enter the store.

It was only the intervention of a store security guard that brought it to a halt.

Jane Waugh, prosecuting, said during his subsequent arrest, Jenkyns also struggled with three police officers.

Jenkyns, now 19, of Middleham Close, Ouston, near Chester-le-Street, admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm and three of common assault, at a previous hearing.

Sentence was deferred by Judge Paul Watson, at the court, for four months in February.

Returning for the sentencing hearing, the court was told a Probation report on Jenkyns, a trainee chef, was, “favourable and impressive”.

Recorder Anton Lodge, therefore, imposed a 12-week sentence in a young offenders’ institution, suspended for a year, during which Jenkyns must undergo 50-hours’ unpaid work.

He was also ordered to pay £300 compensation to the victim.