A self-employed joiner bit a man’s earlobe off in “self-defence” after he triggered a pub brawl by buying drinks for his victim’s wife then walking off with his cigarettes.
Michael Williams, 38, appeared at Chester Crown Court on Wednesday to learn his fate over the outbreak of violence at The Halfway House on Halton Road in Runcorn on Friday, September 24 last year.
Anna Price, prosecuting, told how Williams had been drinking in the alehouse when at about 9pm he offered to buy drinks for another punter, Clare Hartley whose husband Phillip had popped away from the table to use the toilet.
