A 60-YEAR-old gardener has been sentenced to four years in prison after he slashed a man’s throat in a Yate pub in September 2016.
Stephen Hacker, of Colesborne Close, Yate, pleaded guilty to possessing a blade and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, but denied attempted murder.
The court heard that 35-year-old Lee Pearce’s throat with slashed with a craft knife during an altercation following "banter" at the Railway Inn on Station Road.
He was left with a four-inch long cut to the throat that exposed his voice box.
Judge Douglas Field told Hacker that his actions were “inexcusable”.
The landscape gardener was told to pay a victim surcharge of £170 and the weapon, a craft knife, was forfeited for destruction.
Hacker was jailed for four years on Tuesday, January 10.
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