A MAN who glassed his cousin in an argument over a girl has been jailed for eight months.

Neil Sleight, 28, was drinking and watching television at his cousin Jason Gordon Roy Sleight’s home with friends on January 4, said Richard Walters, prosecuting.

While one of the women present was out of the room, Jason Sleight, 21, told Neil Sleight, he had slept with her.

When this comment was repeated to the woman on her return, she denied it and challenged the younger cousin to explain himself.

Jason Sleight went into the kitchen, then returned and without provocation smashed the glass over Neil Sleight’s head.

The Recorder of York, Judge Stephen Ashurst, said: “In the end, this was a quite unnecessary use of violence by you. The use of a glass to cause injury with someone’s head when it is reckless use of violence, as it is in this case must attract a custodial sentence.”

Jason Sleight, 21, of Kitchen Drive, Selby, pleaded guilty to wounding and was jailed for eight months.

Mr Walters said Neil Sleight suffered cuts to the top of his head.

For Jason Sleight, Kevin Blount said it was a single, unpremeditated blow and Jason Sleight had not deliberately armed himself with the glass. He just happened to have it in his hand because he had been drinking.

He was a relatively immature man, who had endured problems at school.

Immediately after he hit his cousin, he gave him a towel to clean off the blood and he had been genuinely remorseful.