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A thug who threw a metal beer keg at a woman’s head while lying face down on the floor today was saved from prison.
Luke Browne, 29, attacked Elsie Frost, an internet personality known as Banter Dancing Queen, in a Birkenhead pub.
Shocking CCTV footage showed the cocaine-fed yob grabbing the victim by the hair and dragging her to the floor.
Browne, who has 57 convictions for 103 crimes, raised the barrel and threw it at the defenseless woman.
But he was released from Liverpool Crown Court after a judge said that sending him to prison could affect his cleaning business.
Nardeen Nemat, accusing, said that Miss Frost went to the Mr Whites sports bar on Argyle Street on February 6.
The victim, known for her viral videos and who also works as an adult model, recalled having consumed “about five pints, along with several shots” and described herself as “drunk.”
Miss Frost remembered talking to three men before she decided to go home because it was getting dark.
Ms. Nemat said she went out and had a “verbal altercation” with some young people on bikes, during which she fell.
Miss Frost went back into the bar, and soon after Browne arrived.
Ms. Nemat said: “There is a story between the two parties. Previously, it reported on an assault by the accused against him, two years earlier.
The court heard a waitress and a male drinker tried to separate them, after Miss Frost approached Browne the first time.
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Judge Gary Woodhall said: “Both separately and more than once attempt to separate the plaintiff from the defendant.”
Ms. Nemat said the clip showed Browne pulling the victim’s hair and attacking her, causing her to fall out.
She said, “After that, the defendant took a nearby metal beer keg and threw it at his head.”
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Ms. Nemat said the victim was shocked with blurred vision and bruises to the head, arms, legs, and back.
In a victim statement, Ms. Frost said she was unable to recall what happened during the incident.
She recalled that Browne was aggressive towards her and said that when she saw CCTV she was “shocked.”
Miss Frost said she suffered from headaches, but when she went to the hospital “luckily the injuries weren’t that bad.”
Her neck and back ached, she was paranoid and worried about going out, she struggled to sleep and spent £ 500 on CCTV for her home.
Miss Frost added: “In the past few weeks, the associates of the person who assaulted me called me grass.”
Ms. Nemat said the victim’s windows were broken, but there was no evidence that Browne was connected to this.
When he was arrested and interviewed, he gave a prepared statement, denying that he had been to the bar.
He said he saw CCTV on social media, but that it wasn’t him and that he had no idea why Miss Frost said yes.
However, Browne, from Ladybower Close, Upton, Wirral later admitted assault causing actual bodily harm.
Ms. Nemat said the victim was vulnerable because she was drunk, while Browne had “drunk a lot and taken cocaine.”
His criminal record includes five crimes of assault plus robbery, assault, and battery that cause actual bodily harm.
He was the last in court for dangerously driving in 2015, when he was jailed for eight months.
Paul Wood, in defense, said the incident lasted “a matter of seconds” and urged the judge not to imprison him.
He said: “Your vulnerability has to be measured against your actions at the beginning of this incident and we know in advance what your behavior was like. I suggest that you are not particularly vulnerable in these circumstances.”
Wood said his client insisted that the barrel was empty and Judge Woodhall accepted that it must have been at least close to the vacuum, or “much more serious injuries would have been caused.”
Mr. Wood suggested that the barrel could not have made contact with his head and when the judge said he thought it did, he replied: “It is very difficult to know from the images.
“One could imagine that there could have been much more serious injuries if he had.”
The attorney said Browne “had a troubled education” but had not been in trouble since 2015.
He said he now had a cleaning business, normally making around £ 35,000 a year and acting as a “father figure” to his girlfriend’s twin children.
He said: “I would respectfully say that you have a good solid relationship, that you have been a responsible and familiar individual, generally you are working hard and staying out of trouble.”
Judge Woodhall noted that Miss Frost was “immediately on her feet” after the attack.
She said Browne pleaded guilty because she was aggressive first, she initially tried to walk away and she provoked him, which was not questioned by prosecutors.
The judge said Browne submitted subsequent videos that the victim had posted on social media in mitigation, but said she was upset by them.
He said: “From any point of view, Miss Frost, whether she provoked you or not, had been violently assaulted and had attacked her home.”
The judge said a pre-sentence report found that his pre-supervision response was good and that the references showed an improvement in his behavior since 2015.
Judge Woodhall said the beer keg, whether empty or not, “thrown into the head of anyone on the ground is an important weapon.”
However, he said he had to consider the effect of incarcerating him on his business and his employees.
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He gave Browne eight months in jail, suspended for 18 months, a 20-day rehab activity requirement, 220 hours of unpaid work, and a Resolve group work program.
The judge told him to pay Miss Frost £ 900 in compensation and made a restraining order to protect her.
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