LOUT HURLED BOTTLES INTO MAN'S FACE AT BAR

A ‘FAMILY man’ ordered vodka and bottles of beer to his table before drinking booze and hurling a gin bottle at a man at a bar on Deansgate.

Business owner Martin Bowker, 46, had booked to visit the Box Bar, near Spinningfields, on December 9 2022, which was showing the Croatia v Brazil World Cup Quarter Final.

Manchester Crown Court heard how he had pre-ordered over 20 bottles of lager and a bottle of vodka.

The victim was on a night out with his fiancée - now his wife - and friends, and paid a visit to the city centre bar after going around the Christmas Markets.

“The defendant then threw a beer bottle which hit [the victim] in his face and a gin bottle which then hit him on the nose,” said prosecuting barrister Ms Caitlin Stiles.