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Ill make it simple i am 18 years old and me and my 2 friends went to a club/pub for some ones 18th birthday i was reli drunk as my mum had left me that year and just thought drinking was the way to feel better. that night i was dancing with my friend and some bot knocks my pint of beer over we sorted things and he bought me a shot l8er on that night my friend comes running to me saying they are gonna jump me and my 2 friends at the end of the night i said i will have a chat with them but my friend said no fuck that go smash him up so me being reli drunk i did, i headbutted him and punched him a few times and then walked out of the pub/club. and now i have heard i broke his nose and eye socket bone i really didn't mean to hurt this kid that bad in fact didn't reli wanna hurt him at all. this is my 1st offense and i did not use any weapons or hit him when he was down i feel remorse as im not the fighting type and my mates edging it on didn't help either as i felt encouraged the next day when some1 told me what happened i then realized i need a new bunch of friends so i moved out of Essex and some were else but have no fount out police are looking for me in Essex what do i do and what sort of sentence am i looking at any help be great thanks
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You have come to an advice site and that is the advice I've given. I don't want to come across as a c**t when I say that if you didn't mean to hurt him, you would have walked away.
If it's the first time, telling the prosecution the above *Might* help. If you've done it before, it'll probably make it worse.
But seriously, you were egged on to do it? No offence, but you need to grow up, and quickly.
Being drunk is no excuse.
Play it out that you felt intimated and so were defending yourself, because the only way to play out a violent experience is that you were acting in self defense. Do not mention that you were drunk as it makes things worse.
Or you could hand yourself in.
As you can see from some of the replies, being drunk won't stand up as an excuse, but it sounds to me as though you're pretty aware of that. There are always reasons behind our behaviour and you mentioned your mum leaving you last year and you feeling like alcohol has been kind of an escape from all that.. and as you know, alcohol can make a bad situation a lot worse
We're not legal experts so you're next step would be to try and get some professional legal advice in terms of finding out what sort of sentence you might face and how you should plea. For expert legal advice you can use our confidential and anonymous askTheSite service and you'll get a reply within 3 working days - you could send in something similar to what you have posted here.
You could also go to your local Citizens Advice (CAB) or take a look at the find a solicitor website: http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/choosingandusing/findasolicitor.law
There's some info here on TheSite about going to court and your rights on arrest.
Posting here was a brave thing to do, what's happened can't be undone but how you deal with it going forward is what counts. Let us know how you're getting on :thumb:
So what if it is only once. You're an adult. Face up to your responsibilities and hand yourself in.