Drinker smashed bottle across pub-goer’s face and ran away

A MAN with a “violent and uncontrolled temper” smashed a bottle across the face of another at a pub in an unprovoked attack before running away, leaving the victim needing stitches.

Swansea Crown Court heard Angelo Edwards went out on December 21 last year with his brother, Mario, and they went for a drink at the Dragon pub in Narberth.

While there, Mario had an argument with another man at the pub, Ben Murphy.

Mr Murphy thought nothing of it, leaving to go to another pub, the Farmers Inn, and while there, stepped outside with his friend.

Suddenly, he felt a very hard blow to the side of his face.

Edwards had followed him and smashed a bottle across Mr Murphy’s face before running away.

Prosecutor Sian Cutter explained that the blow caused a 2.5cm laceration to his chin which required eight stitches, and also an injury to his ear which needed another stitch.

Edwards, 34, appeared at Swansea Crown Court via prison video-link for sentencing after admitting a count of wounding.

The court heard there are eight violent offences on his record between 2007 and 2018, one of which included another previous incident of glassing a man around the face and then running away.

Mitigating, John Tarrant said: “If you removed alcohol addiction he would not be in the realms of dangerousness.”

Judge Paul Thomas sentenced Edwards, of Garfield Gardens, Narberth, to 10 years’ imprisonment, six of those which will be a custodial term. He must serve two-thirds of that before he is eligible for release.