A TEENAGER who left a man with a bleed on the brain has been told he is lucky to be walking free from court after a hearing over an alleged breach of his suspended sentence order was delayed.

Samuel Livermore avoided jail earlier this year after admitting to an attack on a stranger as he walked home in Maldon Road from a booze-fuelled night in Colchester town centre.

The 18-year-old was given a 12 month prison sentence suspended for a year for grievous bodily harm without intent along with160 hours of unpaid work and 40 rehabilitation activity requirement days for punching the victim in the side of the head.

But he was called back to Chelmsford Crown Court yesterday for allegedly breaching his suspended sentence order.

Judge Patricia Lynch QC, who originally sentenced Livermore, adjourned the hearing until Monday because Livermore, of Holman Crescent, Colchester, did not have a solicitor representing him.

After adjourning the hearing, Judge Lynch allowed Livermore to leave the court but said he was fortunate and that she could easily have remanded him in custody.