Jail for ear-biting 'monster'
Saturday, 8 September 2007
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A "monster" who bit his best friend's ear in a drunken assault was jailed for a year yesterday after he agreed to spend a further year on probation.
Omagh Crown Court, sitting in Belfast, heard that on December 16 last year,
Shane Kolbohm had been in Dorman's Bar in Coalisland drinking with his
friend Paul Conlon when a fight broke out.
Prosecuting lawyer
Jennifer Connolly said the friends were playing pool when Kolbohm left the
table, later being spotted by Mr Conlon being taken out a side door but
added that when he tried to intervene, Kolbohm "appeared quite
aggressive".
However, she said that instead of calming down,
Kolbohm punched Conlon and grabbed him, forcing a finger into his mouth and
biting his ear.
Describing his behaviour as "outrageous",
Judge Kevin Finnegan QC said the "prodigious amount of drink you took
that night clearly turned you into a monster".
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