GLASS ATTACK 

Aspiring pilot, 20, who threw glass in ex-soldier’s face leaving him covered in blood is spared jail

• Published: 22:40, 20 Jun 2023

AN ASPIRING pilot who threw a glass in an ex-soldiers face, leaving him covered in blood, has been spared jail.

Leyla Binns, 20, left Harrison Savage, with a three centimeter-long gash under his left eye outside a nightclub in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, on New Year’s Eve.

Binns, who was a pupil at the UK’s first air and space training centre in Newark, Nottinghamshire, got into an altercation with Savage after a row with a pal, Lincoln Crown Court heard.

Thomas Welshman, prosecuting, told the jury that Binns became involved after Savage reduced her pal, and his ex-partner, Emily Barker to tears.

The fuming aviator then punched and slapped the former soldier before throwing a glass at him, according to his friends.

Meanwhile, he said his first memory of the event was waking up covered in blood and surrounded by paramedics.

The witness reported that Binns, from Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire,had apologised, though a policeman on the scene said that she had remarked that it had been “deserved”.

However, the prosecution accepted that she had only meant to throw what was in the glass at Savage, with it then slipping out of her hand.

The victim was hospitalised and required 11 stitches in his wound.

Binns admitted unlawfully wounding him, though the conviction did not prevent her getting a job at East Midlands Airport.