A waiter has denied glassing a drunken night club customer and said he was only trying to throw beer at him.
Dritan Buhaj jabbed his pint glass into the face of victim Daniel Foale during a closing-time confrontation at the Coast club in Kingsbridge but told a jury it was an accident.
He said he was acting in self defence when he pushed the other man away and then flung the contents of his lager glass in his face.
Mr Foale had been out all evening with friends and drunk ten double vodka and cokes and shared a 'fishbowl' of Jagerbomb with friends before the incident in March.
He suffered cuts around his eye and needed hospital treatment after the alleged glassing.
Buhaj, of Landmark Road, Salcombe, who works at the Harbour Hotel in Salcombe, denies wounding.
Mr Nigel Wraith, prosecuting, said CCTV at the club captured the moment when Mr Foale, wearing a distinctive pink shirt, had brief contact with Buhaj near the exit shortly before closing time.
He said Buhaj jabbed the glass into his face with his left hand, which was also cut in the incident, leading police to take him to hospital after his arrest.
Buhaj, who comes from Albania but is now a UK citizen, said he had been working as a waiter until midnight and gone to the Coast club Kingsbridge with friends.
He said they arrived at around 12.30 am and he had only consumed two lagers and two tequilas before the incident, which followed argy-bargy with a group of drunken young men.
He said:"There was a group close by who were play fighting with one another. It is a very small club. We were sat down and they were pushing and shoving.
"They spilled a couple of drinks and of our group had asked them to be careful and just leave us alone.
"I was stood by the pillars later and someone bumped into me and I turned around. There was a man in a pink shirt and I pushed him away to his chest.
"He walked towards me again and told me to eff off. I said he'd been asked before and asked him to go away. I half slapped him across the side of the face.
"He came towards me again and I could see he was squaring up to me. He was three or four feet away and looked very intimidating. He was taller than me.
"I had a drink in my left hand. He came towards me. It was the end of the evening. I thought I could not be bothered to finish my drink. He was clearly looking for trouble and I threw the drink over him.
"I tried pushing him away twice but he was drunk and he was having none of it. I threw the drink but the glass made contact. I had no intention of doing anything. I just wanted to go home."
The trial continues.
