Jail for Tipton man who bit off nose of classroom rival in KFC toilets
A Tipton man has been jailed for biting off the nose of a former school colleague in the toilets of a takeaway restaurant.
Stuart Deeley was put behind bars after he left the man disfigured for life following a bust-up in the lavatories of the KFC restaurant in Old Hill, Cradley Heath.
Wolverhampton Crown Court was told on Friday that Deeley had been in a feud with the victim since childhood – a total of some 30 years. Defending barrister Mr Stephen Hamblett said that there had been a lot of 'bad blood' between the pair in the years before the attack.
The court heard how on September 9 last year Deeley, aged 43, had been at KFC on Halesowen Road when he went to go to the toilet.
While in there he bumped into the man, he'd known since his school days, and the pair had an exchange of words.
Prosecuting barrister, Mr David Lees said: "There was a vicious altercation and he (the victim) was assaulted. The defendant bit him on the end of the nose and a part of it was left hanging off – it needed five stitches.
"In interviews Mr Deeley denied the offence and suggested that the victim's injury was caused by him slipping and hitting his head on the sink in the toilets."
Mr Lees read out a statement from the victim about the attack. It said: "It has left me scarred for life. I'm disfigured and it has left me feeling embarrassed and too afraid to go out of the house. I feel people keep looking at me and every time I look in the mirror I relive the screams of my partner when she saw my nose."
Mr Hamblett said: "It is accepted that there is bad blood between the two that goes as far back as childhood when they were at school together. This wasn't a premeditated attack and Mr Deeley in anticipation of being assaul-ted struck out. He is not a man who will commit a lot of violent crimes here there and everywhere."
Deeley of Horseley Heath, Tipton, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding. He was jailed for 21 months. Judge John Wait said as he sentenced Deeley: "You were apprehensive you would be attacked and felt the need to defend yourself. You viciously bit the nose of the victim. It was a serious attack and you have left him permanently disfigured."
