A DRUNKEN teenager smashed the jaw of a man who had been wearing an Elvis costume while on his stag night celebrations, a court has heard.

Philip Bagnall had to have his wedding breakfast liquidised and had difficulty making his vows and speech due to the seriousness of his injuries.

Joshua McCormick, who handed himself in to police after a CCTV appeal featured in the Star, was jailed for two years for the unprovoked attack at a taxi rank in Ashton-in-Makerfield last November.

He punched the 33-year-old, who had been stood at the rank after earlier attending his stag party with pals at Belle Vue dogs track, in the face knocking him backwards. Mr Bagnall hit his head on the floor and suffered multiple fractures to his jaw.

He was in hospital for five days but released in time for his wedding. However his condition cast a cloud over the day.

The father-of-three and his bride Vicky also had to cancel their honeymoon because they could no longer afford it after he took time off work at a plastics factory.

At Liverpool Crown Court it was revealed that McCormick, 19, from Ashurst Drive, Blackbrook had drunk five cans of lager, six Jaeger bombs and six vodka Red Bulls.

Judge Brian Lewis told McCormick, who had admitted grievous bodily harm: “You said to the probation officer ‘I’m lucky I didn’t kill him’. You never said anything truer. This court is only too familiar with manslaughter cases that arose in the same way.”

Passing sentence the judge said: “This was completely unprovoked violence which people are sick of seeing in our streets.”

Soon after the incident a woman, Kayleigh Williams, who had been waiting to go home went with Mr Bagnall to hospital. The judge praised her “public spirit” and awarded her £300 from the public funds.

Steven Swift, defending, said McCormick, who has no previous convictions, was a hard working young man who was remorseful and ashamed.