Court Reporter Exeter Crown Court - Credit: Archant A man who took part in a mass brawl on Bideford Quay has been spared an immediate jail sentence after he suffered a serious head injury in a second incident on the same night. Charlie Lance kicked and punched a helpless man who was on the ground in the stairwell of public conveniences near the Lundy Office on the afternoon of December 30, 2019. He suffered a significant head injury in an apparently unrelated assault elsewhere in Bideford a couple of hours later. He needed specialist neurological treatment in hospital and has been left with epilepsy, Exeter Crown Court was told.