A man has been banned from every McDonald’s restaurant in England and Wales.

It follows a New Year’s Eve incident when Raymond Craig threw a bottle at a pillar at McDonald’s in Flint.

The bottle smashed and glass struck the manager, Andrew Cotgrave, who suffered an injury to the arm.

Craig, 45, of Queen Elizabeth Court in Flint, admitted a reckless assault and a public order offence.

District Judge Gwyn Jones today imposed a 16 week sentence of imprisonment suspended for 12 months, under which Craig must carry out 180 hours of unpaid work.

He also made a 12 month order as part of the suspended sentence which bans him from entering any McDonald’s Restaurant in England and Wales.

Craig was ordered to pay his victim £500 compensation, and a £115 surcharge.

The judge, sitting at North East Wales Magistrates’ Court at Mold, warned that if he did not comply with the order then he could end up in custody.

He said that immediate custody was justified where a vulnerable man working to serve the public had been assaulted when a bottle was thrown.

Craig was at the time significantly under the influence of alcohol.

It occurred in a restaurant where there would be families present.

He said: “It is more luck than anything else and nobody was hurt more seriously.

“The risk of harm was significant.”

He had however pleaded guilty and the judge said that he took into account the caring responsibilities he had.

The court was told he had sole care of his daughter from a previous relationship.

Anouska Youds, prosecuting, said police were called to the Flint restaurant and saw a large group of people near a bus stop.

People were fighting, they were separated, and it was established that the defendant had thrown a bottle inside which smashed and cut the manager’s arm.

CCTV footage captured the defendant throw the bottle at a pillar, not directly towards the manager.

Defending solicitor Fiona Larkin said her client admitted what he had done without seeing the CCTV.

The assault had not been deliberate and he admitted the assault on a reckless basis.

He and his partner had been out to celebrate New Year, he rarely drank and deliberately left early, and they called in McDonald’s on the way back.

Comments had been made to his partner by a group of youths, as he left he accepted throwing the bottle and outside a fight ensued.

The defendant had acted out of character, she said.

He lived with his partner and he had sole care of his daughter with a previous partner.

The defendant was due to start a new job, Miss Larkin explained, and was very concerned about the position he was in.