A TEENAGE thug jailed after going on a violent rampage through York could see his sentence extended after he admitted another attack - which was uncovered due to the Evening Press.

Louis Duffill pleaded guilty at York Crown Court to causing grievous bodily harm to James Barry in January 2004.

Mr Barry identified his attacker after Duffill was pictured in the Evening Press in January this year, after being jailed for his part in a series of violent incidents in York's South Bank area in the summer of 2004.

Duffill will be sentenced for the offence against Mr Barry on August 16, after a pre-sentence report has been compiled.

The Evening Press reported in January how Duffill, 17, and three other teenagers attacked seven people between July 29 and August 6, 2004, leaving one man, Mark Pantry, unconscious with a brain injury after kicking him 40 times.

Mr Pantry had remonstrated with the gang for misbehaving outside St Clement's Church, in Scarcroft Road.

When Mr Pantry's friend, Matthew Stothard tried to intervene, he was also attacked.

Later that night, Malcolm Aitken was punched in Southlands Road, before the group attacked Stephen Robinson in Nunthorpe Crescent, knocking him out.

A few days earlier, the gang attacked two 15-year-old boys, stamping on them so hard they were left with shoe-prints on their faces.

Another victim, Simon Nicholls, was repeatedly kicked in the head after he asked the gang to leave his shop, while Lindon Kellett was punched in the face after the gang stopped him to ask directions.

An eighth man, John Heppell, was attacked on August 31, 2004.

The four gang members were given sentences totalling ten years for the attacks. Duffill, whose address was given at the time as Ostman Road, Acomb, then pleaded guilty to one count of attempted grievous bodily harm with intent, and three of actual bodily harm. He was jailed for three years.

The Honorary Recorder of York, Judge Paul Hoffman, allowed the Evening Press to identify the members of the gang, saying the public had an "overwhelming right to know" who they were.

Updated: 11:46 Saturday, August 06, 2005