A “VIOLENT coward” has been jailed for 25 months for throwing a bottle into a barmaid’s face.

Shaun Hall forcibly hurled the beer bottle at the young woman when she was working in Maggie’s bar in Commercial Street, Halifax, in the early hours of December 8, 2019.

Hall, 30, of Shirley Road, Gomersal, Cleckheaton, was sentenced at Bradford Crown Court yesterday after pleading guilty to unlawful wounding.

Prosecutor Timothy Jacobs said Hall seized the bottle after a woman in his group said: “Are you going to do something?” when the victim threw a glass of water over her because she had been screaming and issuing threats.

The barmaid sustained a laceration to her forehead that had left her permanently scarred.

Hall ran off and made no comment when he was interviewed by the police.

The woman was treated in Calderdale Royal Infirmary where shards of glass were removed from her wound and it was sutured.

She told the court the incident had left her traumatised. She suffered sleepless night and was left facially disfigured.

Hall had 14 previous convictions for 16 offences, including possession of a bladed article and affray.

His lawyer, Saf Salam, said it was a single blow and he was very remorseful. He was in a relationship and had a young child.

He worked as a scrap metal collector and wanted to pay compensation.

Judge Andrew Hatton told Hall: “You are a violent man and a coward.”

He ordered him to pay the woman £2,000 compensation.