9:11am Wednesday 18th November 2009
AN AMMANFORD man hit a fellow reveller with a bottle after a mid-afternoon argument over a drink, a court has heard.
John Alun Jones, known throughout the town as Alun the Bard, attacked fellow boozer Steven Jones in the Railway pub in Quay Street at 4.50pm on October 2.
Prosecutor Geoffrey Thomas told Llanelli magistrates that the row had started over a bottle of beer.
“Steven Jones said he had been outside for a fag and when he came back he saw that the defendant was drinking his bottle of beer,” he said.
“He asked the defendant why he had taken the beer and the next thing he remembers is being hit on the head with something hard. He later realised it had been a bottle.”
Mr Thomas told the court that when police arrived, Steven Jones was in a state of shock and had a cut on his head.
In interview, defendant Jones told officers that he believed the bottle had been taken off him when he had popped outside.
“He said Mr Jones was pestering him and he admits throwing his hand back with the bottle in it,” he added.
Richard Morgan, defending, said his client had serious issues with alcohol and had been banned from many pubs.
“He didn’t mean to hit him with the bottle, he was trying to give it back – it was an unintentional, yet reckless act,” he added.
The case was sent to crown court for sentencing.
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