JAILED: Thug who wielded bottle in Wolverhampton bar-room brawl

Warren Scott Mason was sentenced at Shrewsbury Crown Court after admitting a charge of affray at a previous hearing.

He had previously been found not guilty at trial of a charge of wounding relating to the brawl.

The incident took place at the King Charles Pub in Bushbury on May 17, 2014.

The court heard that a melee had taken place in the pub involving Mason's partner and a number of other people.

Peter Cook, defending Mason, 43, of Auden Court, Perton, Wolverhampton, admitted his client had jumped over the bar and picked up a bottle before joining the brawl but said he had not smashed it – and had only done so to protect his partner.

However, Judge Peter Barrie, said that the admission of affray was aggravated because it had involved a weapon and because Mason had been on bail for another offence of violence at a licensed premises – Gorgeous Nightclub in Wolverhampton – at the time of the incident.

He said there was no alternative to an immediate custodial sentence.

He told Mason: "What you did was to get involved in disorder that took place in the pub and you decided to join in with it.

"I am not sure that it was entirely a matter of protecting your partner that evening, and I say that because of what you did, which was clearly shown on CCTV, which was to jump over the bar and take a bottle from behind the bar. There is a gesture then when you walked around the side of the bar when you were clearly shown trying to strike the corner of the bar with the bottle.

"It is difficult to say if it was successful.

"But, you then got involved in the melee and it was the sort of incident which people can, and on this occasion did, suffer a significant injury."