A teenager who glassed a woman three times to the head in a hotel room has been spared custody after a court heard he acted in “excessive self defence”.
David Walsh, 19, of Page Moss Lane, Dovecot, had been drinking alcohol and taking cocaine and ketamine with Imogen Duckers in her room where she had been residing at the Hillcrest Hotel in Widnes in the early morning of Saturday, January 8, when in the words of Ms Duckers “it just then went mad”. At Liverpool Crown Court on Monday, prosecutor Cheryl Mottram told how Ms Duckers said that in the short time she and Walsh were acquainted there had been rows and “several scuffles in which both parties had thrown punches at each other”.
Ms Mottram said a friend of Ms Duckers who was in the room that night said she saw Ms Duckers “becoming more agitated and repeatedly pushing” Walsh and he warned her “not to touch him”. There was a scuffle and Walsh “struck Ms Duckers and she fell to the floor”.
