A man told a jury on 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 8 pm.

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.

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 4 pm 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 10 men and left for dead.’

The trial was continuing as we went to press.