A man has been sentenced to nine months jail for glassing another man at a Laverton Football Club function.
Jake Johnson pleaded guilty in the County Court to recklessly causing serious injury, failing to leave licensed premises and behaving in a riotous manner in relation to an incident on September 10 last year.
Judge Jim Montgomery said in court that Johnson had been drinking and using the drug MDMA (ecstasy).
“As a result of that, you, during the course of the evening, grabbed a pot glass off a table with your right hand and smashed it in to the left side of [the victim’s] face,” Judge Montgomery said.
“Prior to that, he had walked towards you with his arms slightly out, as if to say: ‘What’s going on,’ the precursor being some mild verbal altercation between groups of people.”
Judge Montgomery said the victim had permanent scarring on the left side of his face as a result of the incident.
“Glassing at football club nights by people who are affected by alcohol is far too common an occurrence in our society, and has been for a long period of time,” the judge said.
“People who do such things must expect to receive a substantial period of imprisonment.”
Johnson was also sentenced to a two-year community corrections order and drug and alcohol treatment on release from jail.
A special restriction is that he cannot consume alcohol.
He was also required to have his mouth scraped to provide a forensic sample for Victoria’s DNA database.
