Attacked in pub with a pool cue

THUG LEFT WOMAN NEEDING 11 STITCHES

- By ROB KENNEDY Court reporter

Daryl Fender

CELEBRATIONS at Newcastle United's league cup win turned to horror when a woman was left needing 11 stitches by a pub thug who smacked her in the face with a pool cue.

Daryl Fender had already subjected a driver to a shocking racist road rage attack in a separate offence when he carried out a second unprovoked attack.

It was on March 16 that the woman was at the Moor House pub, in Seaton Burn, North Tyneside, to watch Newcastle beating Liverpool to lift the cup. She was sitting in a booth near where Fender was playing pool some time after 7.30pm when she was assaulted out of the blue.

The woman was unaware what had happened but found she suddenly had blood on her hands and face. CCTV showed Fender had been talking to the woman and there was some laughter before things appeared to become animated and he suddenly struck her in the face with a pool cue in a quick upwards movement with the handle.

When he was confronted by one of her friends about what he had done, he replied: "I will hit you as well if you don't get out of my face."