A pub customer has been jailed for stabbing a fellow drinker in the back after they both went to a car park for a pre-arranged fight.
Mohammed Tucker picked up a piece of broken glass during the fist fight in a multi storey car park and used it to cause two wounds as he grappled with victim Leon Daines.
The other man did not realise he had been injured but needed stitches in his back after onlookers saw blood seeping from his back.
Tucker, aged 38, of John Levers Way, Exeter, admitted affray and was jailed for 20 months by Judge Francis Gilbert, QC, at Exeter Crown Court.
The judge told him:"You became involved willingly in this fight but at some point you picked up a piece of glass with which you wounded him in the back.
"You say you did not intend to harm him but your account stretches the imagination beyond breaking point. It was a very dangerous thing to do."
Mr Richard Crabb, prosecuting, said both Tucker and the victim were drinking in a pub in Fore Street, Exeter on June 2 when they got into a fight at about 11.30 pm.
He said:"Mr Daines said words to the effect they could not fight there and suggested they went to the Guinea Street car park for what he called a straightener.
"They exchanged punches and ended up fighting on the floor. At one point Mr Daines had the defendant pinned up against a wall and later the defendant asked 'why are we fighting? This is stupid.'
"By this time people had gathered around them and noticed Mr Daines was bleeding quite heavily from his back. They intervened and Tucker dropped a piece of glass."
He later told police he had picked it up to stop the other man using it and held it in his hand as they struggled.
Mr Rupert Taylor, defending, said Tucker has been in custody since the night of the incident and has used his time on remand to overcome a long standing drug problem.
He said:"He and Mr Daines knew each other and both were in drink. He does not remember very much about the incident and suffered some injury to his hand and what he believed to be a dislocated shoulder."
