TWO young men have been ordered to do 220 hours of community work for their part in a drunken Newport brawl.

Cole Logan Dunbar Rawlings-Conner, 20 of Langton Court Road, Bristol and Peter Robert Jewitt, 21, of Southmoor Road, Oxford, pleaded guilty to inflicting grevious bodily harm to a Newport man in 2006.

Rawlings-Conner and Jewitt had been visiting Newport for a night out on December 30, 2006, Newport cown court heard.

The pair had been drinking all day when they got into a row with James O'Shae, 21, from Newport in Market Street's Meze Lounge.

Newport Crown Court heard yesterday that Mr O'Shae helped to provoke the incident and then Rawlings-Conner and Jewitt chased Mr O'Shae up the road.

Prosecuting, Christopher Reece, said the pair had kicked and punched Mr O'Shae, leaving him with a broken nose and fractured teeth.

Defending, Ruth Armstrong said that while Rawlings-Conner had been provoked, he knew he had shown a "regretful lack of self control in dealing with the situation."

Defending Jewitt, David Aubrey QC, said the young man had felt a great deal of shame for all the anxiety he had caused his parents in coming to court.

Judge Roderick Denyer QC said he didn't believe either of the two men posed a public danger in the future.

He said: "It was an unpleasant attack upon this young man... both of you were very drunk and you completely and utterly over-reacted."

Both Rawlings-Conner and Jewitt were sentenced to a ten month suspended sentence for two years.

They were ordered to do 220 hours of unpaid community work and to pay £350 each towards the cost of the case.