Locked up over bar fight

Don Frame

March 09, 2009

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Alexander Barlow

A 20-YEAR-OLD who almost blinded a man in a bar fight has been locked up for five and a half years.

Alexander Barlow, of Victoria Road, Offerton, had been drinking in the Queens pub in Bredbury, Stockport, when he became involved in a fight with a number of men.

During the fracas, he produced a cosh and hit one of them across the face and eye, then turned on a barmaid who tried to intervene.

The two victims were taken to Stepping Hill Hospital.

The 30-year-old man, who was hit in the eye, has not fully recovered his vision and is still receiving treatment four months after the incident last November.

Barlow, who was arrested on December 15, admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent and common assault at Manchester Crown Court.

He will serve his sentence at a Young Offenders' Institution.

Det Con Richard McCorry, from Stockport CID, said: "Barlow went to the pub that night with a dangerous weapon. As a result of his actions one of his victims may never fully recover his sight.

"I hope today's sentence is a warning to people who think it is acceptable to carry weapons."

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Guten Tag, Deutschland,, Manchester (09/03/2009 at 18:30)

Oh lordy! The ears, again! Is it a problem with the Police photographer, the camera, or is it the actual cause of this type of criminality??

andanotherthing, Mcr (09/03/2009 at 18:34)

Taxi doors again. Got to be something in this ear business !

abu dhabi city group (09/03/2009 at 18:42)

another jughead.

abu dhabi city group (09/03/2009 at 18:48)

how many posts before his friends pour on here protesting his innocence and saying 'thats not the kind, gentle, great with animals and small children alex barlow i know'?

I'm going for 12 posts. any takers?

heptarchy, aha (09/03/2009 at 19:31)

the rope i say its the only way forward !!!

Esso blue & The Temple of Boom,, under the Blue Moonlight (09/03/2009 at 19:56)

I would have took that cosh off him and knocked his ears into place. Ear today gone tomorrow, five and a half years.

James Yates, Hyde, Cheshire (09/03/2009 at 20:49)

He produced a cosh! You mean he had planned to kill or cripple anbody who he thought deserved it. Perhaps everybody should stay at home, or get armed with guns. The police and judges only protect the rich. Thugs try to kill you, and get a few years in a hotel free-of-charge. You and your family live in fear. Meanwhile the rich in Cheshire work out how to get their money tansferred to the Isle of Man. Vote for the New Labor and the Conservatives and lock your door at night.

Jo14 (09/03/2009 at 20:51)

Do you not think it's people picking on him as he was growing up - because of his ears - that made him the aggressive thug he is today?

Bean of the yard, stalybridge (10/03/2009 at 07:22)

Real hardman! takes a cosh with him on a night out, presumably because he carn't get a girlfriend the jug headed moron.

flipsterlondon, Marylebone, London (10/03/2009 at 11:20)

Leave those taxi doors alone - I luv em - wats more important tho is wats going on in the brain - in this instance - sawdust.

JTC Formerley JimC (10/03/2009 at 12:27)

And the girl who smashed a glass into a mans face only gets 2.6 years, why did she not get a sentence as long as his ?.

PW, Manchester (10/03/2009 at 13:14)

Do you not realise the hurt you may be causing this young man about his ears? You need to be careful in case you have the full force of our laws come down on you like a ton of bricks!

andanotherthing, Mcr (10/03/2009 at 13:33)

I think there is one traditional copper making all the arrests on these young scumbags. like in the old days grabs em by the lugs and drags em to the clink.

TheophilusW, South MCR (10/03/2009 at 15:48)

@ JTC:

I would imagine he got a longer sentence because he was in deliberate possession of an offensive weapon, as opposed to just picking up a nearby inanimate non-weapon and using it as a weapon in the circumstance. I mean, I'm no judge, but that seems a fairly obvious difference between the two cases...

Esso blue & The Temple of Boom,, under the Blue Moonlight (10/03/2009 at 16:21)

On an average day I wouldn't lower myself to get personal about other people, but it is an exception for me when I see thugs who don't care about anything and are just violent.

Anyway some blue tack behind the ears should solve the problem.

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