Jorgan Gingell, 26, 'had been drinking for some time' before the incident in June this year

A drunk man hit a car passenger with a pint glass after being refused a lift, a court heard. Jordan Gingell, 26, had been "drinking for some time" when he approached a car in June this year and asked for a lift before hitting the man in the passenger seat with a pint glass he had been holding. Gingell was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting causing grievous bodily harm without intent.

The court heard that Ethan Jones had been travelling with a friend in a car in the Rhymney area on June 8 this year and was sat in the front passenger seat of a car. They encountered a group of young men walking about who appeared to be drinking. They then saw Gingell who appeared to be "flagging the car down" in the road and spoke to him via the passenger window.

Gingell, who had a pint glass in his hand and had, Recorder Richard Kember said, been "drinking in the area for some time", approached the passenger window and asked if the group could give him a lift to Merthyr Tydfil. But when the group refused Gingell struck Mr Jones to the nose with the pint glass before the car drove off.

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Mr Jones then noticed that his face was bleeding and that the pint glass was in his lap. He threw it onto a glass verge where it was later recovered. Mr Jones later received stitches at Prince Charles Hospital to treat the 2cm wound to his right eyebrow following the incident. He declined to provide a victim statement. "Blood was dripping off his face and over his clothes," Recorder Kember said of Mr Jones' injuries. "He had a deep cut with a full thickness wound."

Gingell, who has 20 previous convictions for 37 offences, was arrested and interviewed. He told officers that he couldn't remember the incident. "In short he didn't know that he had struck Mr Jones and had no real recollection of the event," prosecutor Joshua Scouller said.

Paul Hewitt, mitigating, said: "This man, who is only 26 years old, has a substantial record. It all seems to stem from a pretty rough upbringing. He added that Gingell has a history of alcohol problems. "The violence comes from his seeming addiction to alcohol," he said. "For him alcohol is a poison and it leads to him spending significant periods of his young life behind bars."

Recorder Kember said that Gingell, of Wood Road, Treforest, was drunk when he approached the vehicle in which Mr Jones was sat, carrying the pint glass in his hand as he approached. "It is fortunate for you and for you and for him that that glass did not smash when it made contact with his face," he said.

Mr Kember added: "You have an established pattern of violent offending, particularly when you have been drinking." According to a pre-sentence report Gingell, who has already served four months in prison on remand, said while being interviewed: "Nothing would have happened if I wasn't in the mess I was in." He was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.

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