Woman hurt by sword in pub (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Woman hurt by sword in pub

6:20pm Friday 9th May 2008

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A dad-of-three injured an innocent woman when he burst into a pub with a samurai sword while on bail for wounding his former girlfriend, a court heard today.

John Dunn, 30, went into the Southfield Hotel, in Southfield Lane, Great Horton, in October last year, and began smashing glasses with the blade.

Susan Ramsden, who was sat at the bar, was struck with flying glass and suffered a wound to her arm.

The incident happened two months after Dunn had been arrested following an incident in the garden of his former girlfriend Helene Walker's home in Wyke, Bradford. She suffered a broken forearm and elbow when she fell on to the rockery during the incident, and had been left disfigured.

Dunn, of Dawney Road, Canterbury, Bradford, pleaded guilty to two charges of wounding and one of affray and was jailed for 21 months at Bradford Crown Court.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Stephen Gullick, said both incidents had been reckless acts and in the second instance Dunn had been prepared to go in a public place with a weapon which could have caused serious harm.

The judge said they were serious offences, though not deliberate, pre-meditated assaults.

Richard Gioserano, mitigating, said Dunn claimed to have been assaulted in the street by the pub landlord and two other men and went back in to confront the landlord.

Susan Ramsden had been hurt in the melee but Dunn had not intended to injure anyone.

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