Luke Kyle Stephenson has to pay £500 compensation to the victim A MAN has been spared a trip behind bars for wounding another man in an argument over music because it took three years to bring him to justice. Helen Towers, prosecuting, said the victim had to have seven stitches in a cut to his right eyebrow after Luke Kyle Stephenson punched him. The 29-year-old had shouted: “We have had to put up your music all night” and asked him to turn it down when he was a guest at the victim’s home. Stephenson, of Fenton Lane, Sherburn-in-Elmet, pleaded guilty to wounding at York Crown Court.
Robert Ian Keeble slashed a man with a glass shard A HOMELESS man has been jailed for slashing another man with a glass shard and giving him a 15cm wound. The victim was trying to stop Robert Ian Keeble, 41, from climbing into his Tadcaster flat through the window at 11pm, York Crown Court heard. Before starting to get inside, Keeble had shouted to the victim: “If I get in, I will kill you,” said Michael Bosomworth, prosecuting. The victim tried to push him backwards. “Keeble started punching him repeatedly to the face,” said Mr Bosomworth. “Matters escalated when Keeble picked up a shard of glass of some length, was brandishing it and then slashed it across the chest … causing a wound.”