By Phil Coleman

Published at 11:23, Wednesday, 05 September 2012

A MAN has gone on trial accused of glassing another man in the face in a nightclub.

Derek Tinkler, 28, of Valley View, Little Clifton, has denied a charge of assaulting Mark Moore and causing him actual bodily harm.

Prosecutor Andrew Ford told a jury at Carlisle Crown Court that the attack happened after 1am in the Padua nightclub in Workington on January 22 this year. The trigger for the assault, said the barrister, was that Tinkler was not happy that Mr Moore had been chatting to a woman he knew.

Mr Ford said: “The allegation is that Tinkler quickly jabbed, hitting him above the left eye, while holding a glass. We say that he [Tinkler] had been making a nuisance of himself on the dance floor.”

Mr Ford described how after the incident, which happened on the dance floor and was captured on CCTV, door staff had thrown out everybody who was involved, including Mr Moore, whose father drove him and his two friends to hospital where the wound was cleaned and glued.

Mr Moore, who said the injury had left him scarred, told the court that he and his two friends had been in the bar for only 10 or 15 minutes when he realised that Tinkler was shouting at him.

He said: “I know it was aimed at me because I was talking to a female at the bar and he was jealous.”

He said Tinkler had then thrown his right arm at him, and that his attacker had a glass in his hand.

“I knew what had happened – I felt warm liquid running down my face... I had done nothing but talk to a female friend.”

Alison Whalley, representing Tinkler, suggested that Mr Moore had assumed her client was holding a glass.

She said: “You realised you were injured and put two and two together and thought that Tinkler had caused that injury.”

She suggested Tinkler had actually hit him with his left hand and that the hand involved was not at the time holding a glass.

The trial continues.

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