A DELIVERY driver who could have killed a man in a pub glass attack
was yesterday jailed for two years at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.
Sheriff Andrew Bell, when sentencing Graham Wood, 26, of Gilmerton
Dykes Grove, Edinburgh, told him: ''This is one of the most horrific
assaults I have ever heard of.''
Charles Lewis will be scarred for life as a result of the assault,
which left a 20cm cut on his face.
Earlier, the court had heard that Mr Lewis could have died as a result
of the amount of blood he lost during the attack, if he had not received
proper medical treatment.
Mr Lewis spent several days in hospital, after the assault with a pint
glass in the Gordons pub in Gilmerton Dykes Road, Edinburgh, on October
27 last year.
Wood had admitted assaulting Mr Lewis by striking him on the face with
a glass to his severe injury and the danger of his life, and to his
permanent disfigurement.
Wood had taken a cocktail of drink and drugs before the attack but
could give no reason for his behaviour.
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