Let off for drinker who shattered barman’s jaw

A drinker who shattered a barman’s jaw when he tried to break up a pub brawl has been spared jail. Sonny Smith, 23, attacked Dennis Bautista when he stopped him glassing a fellow customer at the Number 1 Bar on Duke Street Hill next to London Bridge last July 13. Bautista was taken to Kings College Hospital where surgeons had to use three metal plates broken bones. Prosecutor Feryal Ertan said: ‘He was obviously quite drunk and the bar staff…