A shop fitter who shoved a glass into a man’s face outside a nightclub’s toilets was this afternoon jailed for almost nine years.
Robert Stubbs, 28, shouted “oi, you” at the victim outside the gents’ of The Deck in Redcar, then lunged at his face and neck.
The glass smashed, leaving the victim covered in blood with wounds that needed three hours’ surgery and 28 staples.
The injured man said it was a totally unprovoked attack from a stranger two weeks before his child was born, Teesside Crown Court heard today.
He said in a statement: “It upsets me that I will be scarred for life. I’m lucky to be alive. I could have died and not seen my child.
“I’m a quiet person who does not get into trouble or confrontation.”
He told how his injuries later affected his life and made tasks like feeding his baby son difficult.
After the attack, Stubbs got on his hands and knees, begged the victim not to press charges and said he was sorry before fleeing the club.
Prosecutor Emma Atkinson told how Stubbs was convicted for obstructing or resisting a PC in the same club last November.
Stubbs, of Jackson Street, Brotton, admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent - his first offence of violence for 13 years.
Alex Bousfield, defending, said Stubbs had been drinking and sniffed a “legal high” he’d never taken before, thinking it was cocaine.
He said Stubbs could not remember much of what happened at 3.54am on April 18.
Stubbs told a probation officer that he was the real victim of his own crime, the court was told.
Mr Bousfield said Stubbs did show remorse and said in a letter he wanted to apologise for “inflicting this vicious assault”.
Judge Howard Crowson told Stubbs - whose pregnant partner sat in court - the injuries could have been much worse.
He said the victim was behaving “entirely appropriately” while Stubbs rowed with someone else in the corridor outside the toilets.
Then he said Stubbs deliberately swung at the innocent man’s face using the glass as a weapon.
He jailed Stubbs for eight years and eight months - his first prison sentence.
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