Angry drinker punched a man he claimed was staring at his girlfriend

PICTURES OF VICTIM'S INJURIES MADE FOR 'HARROWING VIEWING'

- By MARK NAYLOR

A DRINKING session at a sports bar suddenly turned nasty when a customer angrily accused another man of looking at his girlfriend - and viciously punched him, causing a fractured eye socket and nose.

Liam Seaward would not accept the man's desperate attempts to “placate” him and to assure him that he had not been staring at the woman.

Seaward accused him again of looking at his girlfriend and forcefully punched him in an “impulsive” attack. The victim suffered serious and “harrowing” injuries, Hull Crown Court heard.

Seaward, 29, of Yatesbury Garth, Bransholme, Hull, admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm on the man on May 31. The incident happened at the Tribal Bar and Grill in Kingswood, Hull.

Recorder Helen Chapman said that Seaward had been drinking during the afternoon with his girlfriend and this extended into the evening. There was “an exchange” with the other man and Seaward accused him of looking at his girlfriend.

The man told him that he had not been doing this but Seaward accused him again.