A painter and decorator slashed a colleague with a Stanley knife in the face, leaving him scarred and disabled for life, a court heard. Father-of-three Steven Brett, who has his own business, had the knife on him due to his work - but was involved in a scuffle with victim, Dominic Walker, before he lashed out.
Brett was sentenced to two years in prison for wounding, less 363 days on a qualifying curfew and days in custody. Judge Stuart Rafferty, King's Counsel, ordered he serve half of his sentence before his release on licence - meaning his time in prison willl be about one year.
The judge said: "There was a scuffle in which you caused injury already, him, seemingly none, bearing in mind you then went back and you chose to do what your did. And, bearing in mind, within seconds you would have seen what you had done because his face would have opened like a melon.
