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.
