A furious jealous lover smashed a pint glass over the head of a man after shouting “you have been sh****** my bird”, a court has heard. Liam Casey, 37, of Roland Avenue, Hull admitted causing grievous bodily harm to the man who required stitches to his forehead and ear, a hearing at Grimsby Crown Court was told.

Prosecuting, Michael Masson said Casey went into The Mad Italian restaurant in Hessle, East Yorks, on November 12, 2023, and shouted the accusation at a man inside the eatery. He then struck the man once over the head and then again a second time during which the pint glass shattered.

Mr Masson said the defendant had eight convictions for 11 offences, the last of which was in 2016 also for grievous bodily harm. The prosecutor said the woman involved is no longer with the complainant.

HullLive reports, Judge Gurdial Singh said the attack was “an utterly disgraceful assault.” He said it was deliberate striking on two occasions with a weapon. Having viewed the CCTV footage from the restaurant, the judge said: “It is crystal clear what he does.”

He added: “You go into that restaurant and within seconds using an old-style pint glass, strike him and then strike him again which is when it shattered.”

Mitigating, Shebanee Devadasan, told how her client had been in custody and on a tagged curfew for a considerable time before the sentencing hearing at Grimsby.

She said he has a supportive relationship with his mother and he has two dependent children.

Judge Singh added: “It must have been awful for people to see, let alone for the people involved.” He said the words he uttered in confronting the man “revealed the motive.”

He said: “He was bleeding badly. They were very unpleasant wounds you caused.”

He jailed Casey for 14 months.