‌Ian Cook, prosecuting, said: "There had been a wake and there had been a fight where a man had been struck with a glass." When police got there, both men had left, with Mr Potts having attended hospital. It will keep you up to date with all the latest court cases and sentence updates from around the North East. Officers seized CCTV and it showed Longstaff speaking to Mr Potts at the bar. The glass broke on impact and Mr Potts suffered a penetrating wound to his left eye, a detached retina and interocular dislocation.