A drunken Forest Town dad bit a female door supervisor’s finger and headbutted her male colleague to cause £7,000 of dental problems, a court has heard.
Matthew Ilic, aged 39, struggled on the ground with the male bouncer outside Canvas nightclub, on Leeming Street, on May 24, said prosecutor Freddie Sail.
The incident was broken up and the two men were separated, but CCTV captured a “very drunk and aggressive” Ilic pointing at the bouncer before headbutting him in the face.
The blow mashed the bouncer’s teeth through his lip, making them crooked and wobbly, and likely to require £7,000 of dental work.
A number of people tried to detain him and, as a female door supervisor from a nearby club pinned him to the ground, Ilic bit her left little finger.
This broke the skin, caused a “great deal of pain,” and, when she saw blood tricking down her hand, she nearly fainted.
The court heard she had to carry on working over the Bank Holiday weekend but her finger started weeping and swelling and she went to hospital for a tetanus jab.
In a statement, the single mum said she suffered financially because of time off work, was anxious about returning and scared about the possibility of contracting a disease.
Ilic told police he drank seven to eight pints of lager and claimed he was assaulted by the bouncer who threw him out and gave him a black eye.
Mark Stocks, mitigating, said it was an isolated incident and “entirely out of character” for the dad-of-two who “accepted what he has done”.
“We would say this incident started out by heavy-handed behaviour on the part of door staff,” he said. “Of the three involved this defendant was the most seriously injured.”
“This was an attack in the town centre at night and you were very drunk,” the presiding magistrate told him.
Ilic, of Grizedale Close, Forest Town, admitted two counts of assault when he appeared at Mansfield Magistrates Court, on Tuesday.
He received a 12 month community order with 180 hours of unpaid work.
He was ordered to pay £250 to each of the door workers, a £114 surcharge and £85 costs.
Source – CHAD
