A man has told a jury today (Wednesday) how he was glassed in the face during a night out in Tenby.

Declan James Carroll needed four stitches in a cut above his eye after the attack.

The prosecution at Swansea crown court say the assailant was David Graham Lewis, aged 27, of The Clicketts, Tenby,who is on trial accused of wounding Mr Carroll in the early hours of August 31 last year.

Ian Wright, prosecuting, said Mr Carroll had begun the evening drinking with friends in the George pub, Pembroke, before travelling to Tenby at about 8pm.

It appeared that at some stage Mr Carroll was hit on the nose so hard that he thought it could have been broken.

Later, Mr Carroll told a friend, Ben Steele, that he could see the attacker standing across the road close to Market Square, Tenby.

One, said Mr Wright, was Lewis and the other Liam Mansbridge.

Mr Carroll crossed the road to talk to them “which led to some pushing” before Lewis allegedly smashed a pint beer glass into his face.

Lewis ran off, said Mr Wright, pursued by Carroll and Mr Steele.

Mr Steele caught up with him in South Parade, where a “few” punches were thrown and witnessed by police officers.

They separated the men and Mr Steele immediately told them that Lewis had glassed his friend.

Lewis was taken to Withybush hospital with cuts to his hand and later arrested there.

Mr Wright said he told police that shortly after leaving work at the Hope and Anchor he had been attacked and had defended himself.

He denied hitting anyone with a glass but, said Mr Wright, a forensic expert could say there was strong support for glass fragments found on both the clothing of Lewis and Mr Carroll having come from the same object—“and that object was the pint glass.”

Mr Carroll, aged 22, told the jury he had been drinking since about 4pm and at the time of the incident had been “pretty close to 10 on scale of 1 to 10 of drunkenness.”

“I remember seeing a couple of boys and the next thing I was picking glass out of my face,” he added.

Mr Carroll agreed that on first being spoken to by police he said he had been “jumped by ten men and left for dead.”

The trial continues.