Unprovoked assault
A man was jailed for six months for punching a customer in an unprovoked attack in a Dorset pub, a court has heard. Victim Wayne Keighley lost all feeling in his cheek for several weeks after the incident at the Greyhound in Blandford last November. Robert Grey, prosecuting at Dorchester Crown Court this week, said Keighley and some friends were drinking in the pub when Jason Short, 32, from Blandford, entered with his bull terrier dog. Grey said the dog went towards Keighley, who stroked it. "It appears the defendant took offence to the way this was done," Grey said. The court was told Short then hit Keighley in the face before walking out. The victim needed three metal plates inserted in his cheek and also suffered a black eye. Jailing Short for six months, Recorder Dermod O'Brien told him: "What I take into account in your favour is that you had no intention of it having the results it had but that is little comfort to the man who was on the end of it." Fight in pub car park Two men were stabbed and another run over by a car following a fight in a pub car park. Police said a fight broke out between two groups of men at the Royal Hotel in Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire, on Sunday at around 5.30pm. The man who was run over was in a critical condition in hospital. The car was later found abandoned and is being examined. Five men have been arrested but police said several witnesses at the pub have yet to come forward. Car crashes into garden Customers at an Essex pub escaped unharmed after a car veered off a road and crashed through tables in the garden before hitting a lamppost. Police, firefighters and medics were called to the Plough and Sail in Southend Road, Rettendon, after the crash at around 11pm last Friday. Firefighters said the silver Rover had been travelling on the A130 towards Chelmsford when the driver appeared to lose control. The man driving the car, who had to be cut free by firefighters, was taken to hospital. Police said he suffered minor injuries. Fire causes evacuation The two occupants of a pub in Rugby were evacuated after a van containing gas cylinders caught fire in the car park. The van was among vehicles damaged during the blaze at the Barley Mow in Main Street at around 3am last Thursday. Police were called, and two fire engines dealt with the blaze. Firefighters stayed until the following morning to ensure the gas cylinders had fully cooled. Police recommended all residents living within 200 metres of the car park should leave their homes because of the danger of an explosion. Appeal to catch killer Police have made a fresh appeal for information to catch the killer of a licensee, one year on. Billy Sibbald, who ran the Pop Inn in Portobelo, Edinburgh, was stabbed to death after vanishing on 8 October. His body was found near the A1 in East Lothian in January. Three years for glassing A man who glassed another man in a Brighton pub for making a "gay" comment has been jailed for three years. David Farrar, 44, needed 200 stitches and two operations to repair the damage to his face after the attack at the Grosvenor Arms, Western Street, in March. Farrar was drinking with friends and watching football and rugby on the TV when he made a "complimentary" remark to Bernard Felix, a builder and cook, Hove Crown Court heard last week. Felix said he didn't like the remark, so Farrar apologised. But Felix smashed his half-pint beer glass in his face before walking out of the pub. Cuts stretched from Farrar's nose to his ear, below his eye and down to his chin. Felix was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm. Judge Anthony Niblett said the attacker who had several previous convictions, some for violence should serve at least 18 months of his sentence.
