A wedding
guest, Michael Ijomanta, has been reported to have lost an eye after a
policeman, Christopher Kelly, allegedly hurled a glass into his face from three
feet during a wedding ceremony in the UK
* Michael
Ijomanta in court on Friday
According to reports, Kelly, 28, was told in court on Friday that he
faces jail for splitting his victim’s eyeball in two.
It was gathered
that Kelly was smuggled into court through a back door to plead guilty to
assaulting Ijomanta to his severe injury, disfigurement and impairment.
After the hearing,
he was bailed to await sentence while he was allowed to keep working after being
charged.
Kelly maimed
Ijomanta, 34, while off duty at a wedding reception in April last year at
Crutherland House Hotel in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire.
Reports say a
scuffle broke out on the dance floor, Kelly felt himself being pushed from
behind, and turned and threw the glass.
Prosecutor Natalie
Henderson told Hamilton Sheriff Court: “It went directly into the face of the
complainer, who was standing three feet away.
“The glass
shattered on impact. The complainer fell to the ground, screaming.”
Ijomanta was said
to have travelled from Northamptonshire for his cousin’s wedding and was left
with two shards of glass lodged in his eye. He also had cuts to his forehead,
cheek and nose.
Henderson said: “A
surgeon who has been working for 16 years described the injuries as among the
worst he had ever seen.”
Sheriff Shiona Waldron on Friday deferred sentence until next month for
reports and bailed Kelly, but warned him: “You should be in no doubt what the
likely outcome of this will be..
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