A licensee whose husband was left bloodied and scarred by a glassing attack in a Bradford pub says she is angry after the attacker avoided jail.

Forty-six-year-old Paul Vickers, of Southfield Lane, Little Horton, Bradford, was given a nine-month prison sentence for wounding with intent, suspended for two years, at Bradford Crown Court yesterday.

He was handed another month in prison suspended for two years, to run concurrently, for admitting an offence of battery.

No separate penalty was imposed for a guilty plea of damaging property.

Vickers was also served with a two-year licensed premises exclusion order barring him from entering the Southfield Hotel, in Southfield Lane, as well as a six-month residency order.

Paul Brennan, 51, who helps his wife Tracey, 40, run the Southfield Hotel said he needed urgent attention from paramedics following the attack on May 15 last year and the wound to his forehead required 25 stitches.

Mrs Brennan said trouble flared when Vickers sent a bar stool crashing over the bar, causing damage to the bar optics while she was collecting empty glasses from tables. She said some of her regular customers intervened and Vickers, who had previously been barred from the pub, was ejected.

It was shortly afterwards in nearby The Fire Brigade Tavern that Vickers struck Mr Brennan on the forehead with a glass.

Mr Brennan said he could not understand how Vickers had not been locked up.

“I’m very disappointed with the way the justice system is going,” he said. “If the glass had hit me a bit higher it could have killed me, a bit lower and I could have been blinded.”

Mrs Brennan said: “I can’t put it into words. I’m just so angry knowing he’s walking about, living in this neighbourhood. But I’m more mad with the justice system.

“You can go to prison for not paying your council tax but not for glassing someone.

“With any argument in the pub, you don’t know whether to stop it, because last time Paul ended up in hospital.”