A TEENAGER has been jailed for glassing a pub landlord.

Judge Peter Armstrong told 18- year-old Craig Bell that pub landlords had to be protected from people like him.

Unemployed Bell, who had drunk between ten and 11 pints, thrust a glass into the face of Robert McDonald, 58, the licensee of The Master Cooper pub, in Middlesbrough.

Mr McDonald and one of Bell's friends had asked him to hand over the glass, which he had carried outside the pub, said Harry Hadfield, prosecuting.

The glass shattered into Mr McDonald's face, causing multiple small cuts to his temple, and when he grabbed Bell they fell over a small wall. Bell was restrained at the scene by other customers.

Bell told police that he was drunk after drinking at the pub for three hours on March 21, and he said that if he had done it, he was very sorry, Teesside Crown Court was told.

Victoria Lamballe, mitigating, said: "It seems that the defendant's reaction was impulsive rather than premeditated."

The judge told Bell: "The effect on Mr McDonald, who has been a landlord for 20 years, is that it has made him quite understandably extremely apprehensive.

"Landlords of pubs have to be protected from people like you, who are prepared to use glasses."

Bell, from Corby Avenue, Middlesbrough, was sent to a young offender's institution for six months after pleading guilty to actual bodily harm assault.