YOUNG thug Jonathan Kerrigan punched and kicked a Kurdish man following a bar-room row.

But a judge put off passing sentence on the 24-year-old after hearing that he had been barred from the pub by the courts following another fight.

David Chidgey, prosecuting, told Swindon crown court that Kawan Deylan had gone to the Dolphin on Rodbourne Road when the incident happened in October 2004.

He said that he had had two pints at the pub on the Saturday night and recalled being attacked at about 11pm.

The next thing he recalled was waking in hospital having had three teeth knocked out; a laceration to his right wrist exposing the tendons and other cuts and bruises. Mr Chidgey said that eye witnesses told the police how there was a verbal altercation between the victim and two regulars known as Danny and Jonny.

Jonny, he said, is the defendant and Danny his friend.

He said the victim then left the pub and outside smashed a window causing the two men to go outside after him.

"Outside he was pushed to the floor and assaulted, kicked to the upper body and to the face," he said.

"The defendant got up and ran down the road but Jonathan Kerrigan caught him up and put him to the floor and kicked him several times to the upper body.

"Afterwards Jonathan Kerrigan was seen walking round the pub showing people blood on his jeans."

At an earlier hearing Kerrigan, of Wardour Close, Lawn, pleaded guilty to a charge of actual bodily harm.

The court heard that Kerrigan had been handed a banning order by magistrates after admitting assaulting a man in the same pub on Boxing Day last year.

Neelo Shravat, defending, said that his client, who was too drunk to remember what took place, had punched a man on the nose once causing bruising.

After being convicted of common assault he was put on an 18 month conditional discharge, ordered to pay £100 compensation and excluded from the Dolphin for a year. He told the court that his client accepted kicks and punches to the body but did not accept causing any facial injuries to the victim. The pre-sentence report, he said, had been prepared on the basis that it was racist attack and he had caused all the injuries.

Judge Charles Wade adjourned the case for three weeks so a new report can be prepared on Kerrigan, who he said was likely to receive a community order.