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Glass attack victim Stephen Grey backs campaign

Apr 26 2009 by Dan Warburton, Sunday Sun

Stephen Grey, 34, of Dumpling Hall, Newcastle, who needed 100 stiches after a glass attack in Newcastle

A FATHER who was targeted in a savage pub attack has backed the Sunday Sun’s campaign to ban glasses in our Last Orders on Glass campaign.

Stephen Gray needed three hours of surgery and more than 100 stitches after he was set upon in popular Newcastle nightspot Perdu, after accidentally

bumping into a stranger.

As reported earlier this week, the 34-year-old’s attacker smiled at him before plunging a pint glass into his face.

The shattered glass was just millimetres from his eye and sent blood gushing from the wound, and he was then pulled to ground where the thug tried repeatedly to kick him in the face.

And today Stephen, who lives in Dumpling Hall, Newcastle, with his wife Clare, 35, and his three-year-old son Elliott, called for new measures on glasses in bars.

He said: “It was an awful incident and one that will stay with me for my entire life.

“But I feel lucky because if it had been closer to my eye I would have lost my sight, and if it had hit my neck I could have died.

“I totally support the Sunday Sun’s campaign to get rid of glass in pubs and bars.

“The guy who hit me still hasn’t been caught. I want him to be arrested before he attacks someone else.”

Our Last Orders on Glass campaign aims to end such horrific injuries.

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