Glassing

[24shaw]

I was recently in a pub drinking, at around 1 oclock i was having some friendly banter about a girl with another male who was very angry and grabbed hold of my jacket, i felt threatened and reacted by punching the male but actually hitting the guy in the side of the head with a glass which i was drinking from in my hand, the glass smashed and caused my hand to bleed and the males face to bleed, the guy reacted by taking his shirt off and getting very aggressive, i reacted very calmly and we were both sent to a & e, the police were realy calm with me stating that we all react differently when threatend and i wasnt arrested that night, the male continued to threaten me with other people he knew would get me, ! the male had stitched to his cuts in a & e, i had to go for plastic surgery on my hand the next day and on he evening i was called in to the police station and arrested for interview for GBH with intent and called to go back in a months time..............can anyone tell me what is likely to happen as i am really confused to where the intent could have come from? and am i in serious trouble? i have a really good job! and thats the most important thing to me, i really dont want to loose my job and was told by the officer that i dont need to tell my work! so i told work i fell in cut my hand? any help would be grreat, im not proud of my reaction and really want this to be over!

[Sam1002]

Hi 24shaw, me and my husband are in this same situation now with a guy attacking us in a pub pushed my husband flying and my husband punched him with his glass in hand, can you please tell me what happened in your case? As we are saying self defence as that's what it was, we just want to know what happened in your case is it's very similar to ours