3:11pm Thursday 18th March 2010
A MAN who glassed his girlfriend in the face during an argument on a night out has walked free after a judge heard that they are back together.
Elizabeth Revell needed nine stitches in a cut over her lip and suffered a black eye and bruising to her head and hands, a court heard yesterday.
In a victim impact statement made at the time of the incident on November 21 last year, the 19-year-old said that she felt “completely shocked”.
She added: “I never thought he would do this to me. This was caused by someone who I thought loved me. I’m going to be scarred. I’m devastated.”
Tariq Hussain, of Corporation Road, Redcar, east Cleveland, admitted unlawful wounding and was given a 12-month suspended prison sentence.
Judge Peter Armstrong also ordered him to do 200 hours of unpaid work and go on a domestic violence awareness programme as part of his supervision.
The judge said he would have gone to prison had he not spent the equivalent of a six-month sentence on remand and on an electronic tag curfew.
Judge Armstrong described the drunken attack as “shameful” and told 27-year-old Hussain: “Hopefully, things will be all right in the future.”
He added: “I am told the surgeons have done a good job and there may be little or no scarring, but I have no doubt it is an episode that will remain in her memory for a good long time.
“I am pleased to hear that you are back together again, and that’s credit to her that she is able to put this behind her to the extent that she is willing to have you back.
“You are doubly lucky – first of all, to have her, and secondly that you are not going to prison today.”
Teesside Crown Court was told that the couple rowed on a night out in Redcar, and Hussain lashed out without thinking that the glass was in his hand.
David Lamb, mitigating, said Miss Revell had been visiting while he was on remand in prison, before his release on the tagged curfew last month.
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