A BOTTLE-WIELDING clubber told a court “I won’t be coming back” after getting an unwelcome taste of the justice system following a fight in a Selby nightspot.

Matthew Williams had never been in trouble with the law in his life until, after drinking pints, he became involved in a scuffle with another reveller during a night out.

He left his victim, Kevin Oliver, bleeding after hitting him on the side of the head with a bottle he was carrying, before door staff stepped in to throw him out of Kans nightclub in Market Place.

Appearing before a judge at York Crown Court to receive his punishment following the incident last November, Williams, 24, of Engelhart Close, Brayton, said he found the court experience “very intimidating” when a judge asked him to describe his feelings at ending up in the dock.

Simon Ostler, representing the Crown Prosecution Service, told the court the trouble flared in the nightspot at about 1.30am on November 9 last year.

“One of the doormen saw two men who he knew through football and saw the defendant push another man, Kevin Oliver,” he said.

“Williams was swinging his arm around and holding something in his hand, and he looked angry.

He made contact with the side of the other man’s head, and Mr Oliver was bleeding.

“Door staff took hold of Williams and escorted him out of the club, but the defendant was then pushed and further punches were thrown by other parties.”

When interviewed by police, Williams said he had drunk “a lot of alcohol” – about five or six pints – but was not drunk.

The court also heard Williams had admitted using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour at the earliest possible opportunity.

Judge Jonathan Rose asked him: “What do you think of our crown court and, after 24 years of a blameless life, finding yourself standing in the dock?”, to which Williams replied: “It’s very intimidating. It’s not something I want to come back to. I won’t be coming back.”

Sentencing Williams, Judge Rose told him: “If you do come back, you will be going to prison.

“Drink is no excuse, a loss of temper is no excuse, but when you had this bottle in your hand, you lost self-control.

“You really ought not to have put yourself in this position and ought to have dealt with it in a better way.

“But you are a man who has not been in trouble before, and everything I have read about you suggests it is not necessary to send you to custody.

“However, you have a debt to pay to society if you behave like this in society.”

Williams was handed a 12-month community order which will require him to complete 100 hours’ unpaid work.