Man jailed for glass assault

Friday 19th October 2007, 10:12AM BST.

A former Mid Wales man has been jailed for pushing a beer glass into another man’s face outside a Newtown pub.

Darren Lloyd, 40, now of Station Crescent, Craven Arms, who had admitted wounding at an earlier hearing, was jailed for two years when he appeared at Mold Crown Court yesterday.

Lloyd, formerly of Newtown, was also given an additional two months for possession of a lock knife.

Judge John Rogers QC said the victim, David Lane, a graduate who worked as a digital communications engineer in Newtown, felt embarrassed about the facial scars he was left with after the incident outside The Buck Inn, High Street, Newtown.

He added Lloyd had “a deplorable” record for violence, but had never been to custody before.

Mr Dafydd Roberts, prosecuting, said Mr Lane and friends had been at The Buck Inn when someone accidentally broke his glass.

The defendant thought the glass had been thrown at him and there was an altercation involving a friend of the defendant. Mr Lane and his friends left, but Mr Lane returned later as his girlfriend was working behind the bar.

There was then an incident when another man held him by the throat, before, outside the pub, Lloyd struck Mr Lane in the face with the glass.

Mr Des Parry, mitigating, said it was clear drink was the background to the case.

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