A jealous man has been jailed for glassing a man who he found at the home of a woman he met on a blind date.
Stephen Green was so drunk he could not remember his unprovoked attack on victim Jordan Whittle which left him with severe cuts on his cheek.
Green lashed out in a jealous rage after turning up at the home of a woman in Dawlish and finding Mr Whittle was there with her, Exeter Crown Court was told.
The woman was in the kitchen when Green came to the door and launched the attack and found Mr Whittle covered in blood on the floor with Green standing over him.
She was so alarmed she threw herself over the injured man’s body to prevent any more violence.
Green, aged 34, of no fixed abode but previously of Gladstone Road, Newton Abbot, admitted wounding and witness intimidation and was jailed for two years and eight months by Recorder Mr Philip Mott, QC.
He told him: ‘I have no doubt while you continue to take alcohol you will pose a danger to the public. You are fortunate that on this occasion you did not injure the victim’s eye, as you could easily have done.
‘You used a glass as a weapon but as it turned out the injuries were not as serious as they might have been.’
Mr James Taghdissian, prosecuting, said Mr Whittle was a long-standing but plutonic friend of a woman who is named Susan Whittle, but is not related.
He first met Green when he went to her home five days before the attack and found him there, apparently on a blind date. The two men spoke amicably and passed each other in Dawlish a couple of days later without any problems.
On the night of October 30 last year Mr Whittle was at Susan’s home when Green called at the door and attacked him within seconds of entering the house.
Mr Taghdissian said: ‘She heard a noise from the front room and neighbours heard raised voices and she found Mr Whittle on the floor bleeding heavily and with broken glass around him.
‘He was curled in a foetal position and Green was standing over him and telling him to get up. She lay across Mr Whittle to protect him.’
Green was aggressive to police and went on to visit Susan Whittle twice and make threats, which she recorded on her mobile phone on the second occasion. He called her a grass and said he would ‘run her out of town’.
Mr William Parkhill, mitigating, said Green has no recall of what happened but accepted he must have acted out of jealousy. He is now keen to address the abuse of alcohol which has led to all his offending.