A COMPUTER shop employee will spend Christmas waiting to hear if he is to be jailed for an Easter glassing incident in a York nightclub.
Conor Sean Mulhearn, 21, hit out in Kuda in the early hours of Easter Monday with a glass in his hand.
He injured Rhys Hepworth in the face, leaving him scarred.
Mulhearn, of Langsett Grove, Clifton Moor, pleaded guilty to wounding.
Neither man, nor the group of friends each was with that night, knew each other.
The case was adjourned until January 23 while probation officers prepare a report and Mulhearn was released on bail on condition that he stays out of Kuda nightclub.
Recorder Simon Phillips QC told him he would consider all possible sentences, including sending him to jail.
Mulhearn claimed that Mr Hepworth had been aggressive when the two groups encountered each other by the dance floor in the early hours of the morning.
From the witness box at York Crown Court, he told the judge that he had wanted to stop Mr Hepworth attacking his friend and he was also concerned for his girlfriend. He denied having anything in his hand when he punched Mr Hepworth.
But after hearing from him, his friends, Mr Hepworth and his friends, and a member of the club’s door staff, the judge decided in a trial of issue that Mulhearn did have a glass in his hand as he had been seen with a glass in one hand and a bottle in the other moments before and he disagreed that Mr Hepworth had been aggressive.
He said witnesses had given evidence that the complainant had remained calm when he was grabbed by the neck during some “bumping” by the dance floor and that Mr Hepworth was sober because he was going to be driving later.
He also decided that Mulhearn had not deliberately picked up the glass to use it on Mr Hepworth.
The judge heard that Mr Hepworth’s scar is not obvious as it is hidden by his moustache.
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