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- Nov 18, 2004
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Without sounding like the Daily Mail how the **** can you only get a year for this?
A trainee plumber broke a pint glass in the face of an innocent pub customer, leaving him needing 22 stitches.
Bradley Hemsley, 20, told police he forgot he was holding the glass when he went to punch victim Philip Durrant.
Mr Durrant was attacked without warning during a fight at The Railway, Burgess Hill.
At Lewes Crown Court Hemsley, of Walmer Crescent, Brighton, admitted wounding.
He was sentenced to one year in custody suspended for two years.
Hemsley must carry out 200 hours of unpaid work in the community and he was banned from the pub for two years.
He must also pay £1,100 costs.
The court heard the two men were at the pub in Burgess Hill on the night of September 22, 2006, when violence flared at closing time between two groups of customers.
Mr Durrant, a bank worker, was not involved in any of the trouble but he was attacked by Hemsley and left bleeding heavily from wounds to his nose and forehead.
Nicholas Hall, prosecuting, said after his arrest Hemsley admitted to police he had thrown a punch at Mr Durrant, who he had never met before.
Mr Hall said: “He said he didn’t realise he had a glass in his hand.”
Jeremy Wainwright, defending, said Hemsley, a trainee plumber, apologised for his actions and had acted out of character.
Judge Anthony Scott-Gall said: “This was a reckless wounding.
“He will be scarred, almost certainly, for life and no doubt mentally as well.
“This was a feckless, stupid act that was out of character.
“Anybody who rams a glass in somebody’s face commits a very serious offence."
A trainee plumber broke a pint glass in the face of an innocent pub customer, leaving him needing 22 stitches.
Bradley Hemsley, 20, told police he forgot he was holding the glass when he went to punch victim Philip Durrant.
Mr Durrant was attacked without warning during a fight at The Railway, Burgess Hill.
At Lewes Crown Court Hemsley, of Walmer Crescent, Brighton, admitted wounding.
He was sentenced to one year in custody suspended for two years.
Hemsley must carry out 200 hours of unpaid work in the community and he was banned from the pub for two years.
He must also pay £1,100 costs.
The court heard the two men were at the pub in Burgess Hill on the night of September 22, 2006, when violence flared at closing time between two groups of customers.
Mr Durrant, a bank worker, was not involved in any of the trouble but he was attacked by Hemsley and left bleeding heavily from wounds to his nose and forehead.
Nicholas Hall, prosecuting, said after his arrest Hemsley admitted to police he had thrown a punch at Mr Durrant, who he had never met before.
Mr Hall said: “He said he didn’t realise he had a glass in his hand.”
Jeremy Wainwright, defending, said Hemsley, a trainee plumber, apologised for his actions and had acted out of character.
Judge Anthony Scott-Gall said: “This was a reckless wounding.
“He will be scarred, almost certainly, for life and no doubt mentally as well.
“This was a feckless, stupid act that was out of character.
“Anybody who rams a glass in somebody’s face commits a very serious offence."
