Girlfriend’s nose ‘partly bitten off’

GBH trial man also denies kill threat

A MAN has gone on trial accused of biting part of his girlfriend’s nose off.

Stephen Charles Mccarron denies causing grievous bodily harm with intent to his then partner in her flat in the Bogside area of Derry on August 15, 2017.

The 35-year-old also denies a further charge of threatening to kill her on the same date but has admitted breaching a court order by being at her home address.

Opening the case, a prosecution barrister told Derry Crown Court the complainant had been in a two-year relationship with the defendant.

On the night before the alleged incident both she and the accused, of no fixed abode, had attended a bonfire together in the Bogside where she had an argument with another man. The victim ran home after she’d told the defendant he had not supported her during the argument. The defendant followed her to her flat where the prosecutor said the assaults allegedly took place.

He said the defendant allegedly kicked and punched the victim and bit off part of her nose.

The barrister told the jury: “To bite someone on the nose in this way and to cause such an injury to them that they lose a little part of that piece of her nose to the right nostril must be really serious harm.”

The barrister said it was a deliberate and prolonged attack on the injured party during which the defendant also threatened to kill her. The trial continues.

DERRY CROWN COURT