The bakery worker jumped onto a table in the pub and threw a glass and chairs
Daniel Pettifer, of Croyde Road in Speke, aged 35(Image: Cheshire Police)
A bakery worker jumped onto a table in Wetherspoons and threw a glass and chairs after having “far too much to drink”. Daniel Pettifer was said to have turned violent after other customers took exception with his drunken antics inside the pub.
Liverpool Crown Court heard the 35-year-old attended the Premier, a branch of JD Wetherspoon in Widnes, on the evening of February 28 this year. But others inside the premises were said to have “taken exception” with his drunken behaviour, resulting in a violent confrontation.
Derek Jones, prosecuting, described how this resulted in Pettifer, of Croyde Road in Speke, jumping onto a table and throwing a glass and chairs. Having ultimately been released on bail following his subsequent arrest, he went on to punch the wall at the home of a woman he was spending the evening with during a further incident.
Pettifer was previously handed a 12-month imprisonment suspended for two years for matters of battery, theft and criminal damage in February 2024. He then twice breached a restraining order imposed upon him in June 2024 and August 2025, resulting in sentences of two months behind bars and a community order.
Gerald Baxter, defending, told the court his client had suffered the “loss of twins being carried by his ex-partner” as well as the death of his grandad in July of this year, adding: “Those have preyed on his mind.
“He has explained to me a history of mental health problems, including what he describes as severe self harming and, on one occasion not long ago, three weeks ago, he tried to kill himself.
“On the positive side, he has had some employment, since July, working for Warburtons bakery in Widnes. He says, at the moment, his employment has been put on hold.
“He was held in quite high esteem at the bakery, with the possibility of a promotion to a position of foreman.
“He also had a settled address. He says he had been homeless earlier in the year. Having that settled address is important to him. He was sharing it with a friend. That address, he says, is open to him.
“Both the job and address are in jeopardy, dependant on the outcome of today’s hearing.
“He has asked me to say that he is very sorry for the way he behaved.”
Pettifer admitted using threatening behaviour, assault, criminal damage and breaching a suspended sentence order Appearing via video link to HMP Liverpool, he was jailed for a year.
Sentencing, Judge Dennis Watson KC said: “You had far too much to drink. Others took exception to the way you had been behaving, which resulted in a melee.
“I accept that there was violence used against you, but it was your conduct that brought that on you.
“I do not condone what happened to you at all, but neither should you have been threatening and jumping on a table and throwing a glass. Chairs were thrown as well. All of that is a serious matter.”