court report

An alcoholic was given two years in jail today after leaving a nursery nurse needing 25 stitches to her face, a Bournemouth Judge has decided.

Carl Anthony Stanley, 23, had only recently been released after serving half of his 6 year sentence for stabbing two men at Poole Quay, prosecution barrister Stuart Ellacott told Bournemouth Crown Court.

Mr Stanley, who according to Judge John Harrow poses a ‘substantial risk of serious harm’ to the public, is likely to walk free in under two years, after which he would have also served the remaining year of his previous sentence.

The convicted criminal lost his temper with Miss Hiscock, 28, on 12th December last year, when he threw a drink over one of the victim’s friends, also a female, after which Hiscock retaliated and threw her drink over the defendant.

Mr Stanley then lashed out at Miss Hiscock, and ‘unfortunately’ shattered his glass into the left side of her face, causing substantial injuries, defence barrister Emma Southern told the court.

The attack happened at around 11.50pm on the busy dance floor of Wetherspoons Pub in Poole, and Allison told the court of how it had left the victim with extensive scarring to her face, to the point where she no longer goes out and ‘cries in front of the mirror’.

The defendant pleaded guilty at his first court appearance on one count of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

His alcohol problem was ‘no excuse’ for this attack according to the Judge, who also said that Mr Stanley had caused ‘terrific psychological damage’ to the victim.