Rugby Star Left Partially Sighted After Being Glassed in Leeds Bar

[@przemyslawjankowski9290]

10 years in prison?? Will be released after 2.5 while this poor guy lost his vision forever. He should pay him money for the rest of his life.. Absolutely shocking..

[@bigal2417]

u beat me to it , i agree with you, man should of been jailed for 25/30 years and serve that time not 10 years serve 6 years then he is out.

[@paulwoodford1984]

All the guy has to do is open his eyes and he can see lol

[@bigal2417]

@paulwoodford1984 not funny !

[@paulwoodford1984]

@@bigal2417 i agree. abhorrent comment. 🥲

[@lukepatterson5367]

Released after 2.5 ? That sort of crime is two thirds not one quater

[@flower2226]

"When i heard my mums voice i calmed down"😢 Mothers r amazing❤

[@lc1429]

yeah her giving birth to him gave him the opportunity to be blind for the rest of his life, truly amazing, antinatalism strikes again

[@MMAproAtGOLF]

Not mine lol

[@ottson]

The perpetrator needs to learn about "an eye for an eye".

[@marybrown72091]

Absolutely heartbreaking for this man and his family! What sort of monster shoves a glass in someone's face! Yet again the perpetrator had a string of convictions for GBH etc! Our police and justice system are a disgrace! I hope that his operations are a success and make his sight a bit better! Well done to him with his campaign to get plastic glasses in pubs! What a brave young man!

[@GrantH2606]

What an amazing guy, I hope he makes a full recovery from this and at least regains his sight well enough to see his family again.

[@witkrag4953]

An eye for an eye ? Change the law to incorporate this form of justice ⚖️

[@joshswain6495]

Makes the whole world blind

[@aldomandovani]

That was the origin of Law on the Amuraby Code but we perverted it

[@daffow4904]

No revenge will lead to more killings that what the law is for to prevent revenge and to preserve justice

[@FeelinErie]

Absolutely shocking :( I hope that ban is passed.

[@paulwoodford1984]

He should have worn glasses and his eyes would have been protected

[@daniel_debo]

​@@paulwoodford1984What a foolish thing to say some of you have no shame.

[@catzfive]

@@paulwoodford1984 multiple troll comments under the same video, do better.

[@paulwoodford1984]

@@catzfive troll? who said i was trolling. i meant every word

[@TayWoode]

He had such beautiful smiling eyes, hopefully he’ll get them back to as best as possible

[@jonrend]

10 years is shocking. His ruined a life and should get life.

[@pro-fh9tr]

This is a perfect example where life in prison would be 100% appropriate.

[@alexralph5185]

He’ll be out in 5 probably too, just ridiculous.

[@BlueBadger24]

To many cowards in the uk and they get away with it! Its a disgrace to take away someones site.

[@Fromanotherearth]

Need to stand up and fight back

[@steamer1]

Too* UK* It's* sight*

[@89kilemal]

​@@steamer1*someone's

[@steamer1]

@@89kilemal good catch

[@89kilemal]

@@steamer1 u to. 😉

[@christiphermeadows5348]

Absolutely disgraceful....

[@FPInvention]

I was fully blinded in my left eye after an unprovoked attack in Leeds in 2004. To see this happen to someone else is horrible and the after effects and PTSD that goes with it is tough.

[@dean9235]

Gareth Dean should never be released. He's a menace to society. An absolute monster.

[@nigelsmith3485]

Shocking..hope Matthew gains his sight .. All the Best

[@krislambert6625]

how do we know what really happened?

[@C_Tolea]

@@krislambert6625we don't really. he most likely happened to be at the wrong time in the wrong place. The attacker was probably envious of this man's life success or his posture and he wanted to bluntly humiliate him. It's typical for convicts to engage in life and death fights for their ego.

[@krislambert6625]

@@C_Tolea we dont know that. we dont know anything about what really happened...but i have seen these kind of people in the street after drink...football players and rugby people ...its not nice

[@mccarey5932]

@@krislambert6625the guy who did it said he didn’t know why he did it. Guy was off his head on drugs and chose this guy to glass

[@VoiceOfReason55]

@@krislambert6625 With all we know about this case this is definitely not the time to deflect blame onto the victim. Get a grip

[@julietteashmore4831]

What a brave young man . I really truly wish him the very best , from the bottom of my heart

[@globalprofits101]

Is death penalty a thing for these crimes.

[@JurisVahtanovs]

There should be a law which prohibits entry in such places with criminal records

[@Connor-kc2ns]

No there shouldnt. There should not be glass' or glass bottles in pubs and clubs tho.

[@marcin959]

It's not the glass that needs to be banned. We need harsher sentences in the UK

[@keithcomyn8159]

Terrible incident hopefully he makes a recovery.

[@daveswinb]

Amazing guy! Real man with a heart of gold 💛 True inspiration to his kids first and foremost as well as everyone else

[@ahfkajhfk]

Wait so this happens often enough that you all have a word for it?! getting glassed??? this doesn’t exist here in the US

[@AldisoKristian]

Yap, glass/bottles smashed in faces, hitting from behind and running away etc - that's nightlife in UK. And you don't need to do anything get all that, you can just stand in a corner and someone tw*t will not like it.

[@Dontmind8]

It’s very shocking, isn’t it? Absolutely terrible. I hope Matthew recovers fully. 🙏❤️

[@Geordie_]

Cos in America you just get shot instead. I’m not even trying to be funny. If anything it shows the willingness to be violent in the uk. It’s disgusting.

[@Lemingtona-x5g]

Leeds is pretty rough. Remember those Leeds united footballers that attacked a person in a club left him with heavy cut scars

[@bennymac_10]

Wouldn’t say it’s rough

[@Roger-ff3cu]

Disgraceful behaviour in Australia aswell. Not good..😮

[@太好了F]

This poor man. Sadly I don't think removing glass will solve the issue we need better mental health support for people who need it. And better laws keeping dangerous people inside

[@RattyTheTruth]

alcohol ban would help

[@paulwoodford1984]

Enough with the mental health nonsense. mental health support won’t do anything to stop weirdos from attacking people. only strict Harsh laws

[@TreesRgreen123]

I know. If it's not glass then it's knives instead. Look wat happened Corey Fisher in a niteclub boxing day last year

[@太好了F]

@@TreesRgreen123 just read the article about that I recognized Corey but it had left my mind because of how many stabbings there are. Heartbreaking and ridiculous

[@joedimaggio3146]

What we need is proper parenting and good societal values so that people know right from wrong.

[@BigBoyTed]

The guy need much more than 10 years in prison. Such weak punishment. 20 years with no early parole.

[@natbarron]

Or he could choose to have his eyes glassed

[@vladimirberner5614]

praying Matt makes a full recovery, and respect his strength for trying to make a positive change after a terrible situation.

[@yummychoc6657]

Don't bother with nightclubs and pubs, hit the gym hard and go home and watch netflix with a few a beers! To many knobheads about!

[@asperFromTG]

Don't watch Netflix and don't drink, homestead and homeschool your children.

[@dean9235]

Especially in the UK.

[@AndrewSmotor]

Justice isn't served, in this day and age. 😢

[@Fromanotherearth]

There will come a time when street justice will have to do

[@asperFromTG]

There's a guy in the UK doing 5 years for advocating a future for White people. James Costello, look him up.

[@StayBLESSEDpeople]

Hope this young fella gets his sight back asap bless him 🙏 he right all drinks into plastic classes then the idiots of the world wont be able to cause situations like this for people.

[@albertmeyer8983]

Terrible thing. I feel so bad for him 😢 I wish all the best

[@yitzhakspolter9551]

The fact that both eyes were damaged is just so horrible

[@Definedism]

When will common sense prevail ? He's 100% right ! Remove glasses /bottle glasses from pubs/clubs ..For a safer experience for all !

[@gdwe1831]

Bit overkill to get rid of glasses from all pubs and bars, but would make sense at certain venues or after a certain time.

[@mattt2523]

​@gdwe1831 plenty alternatives so not really overkill is it

[@daniel_debo]

​@gdwe1831 No it isn't if people are kept safe Glass should be banned in clubs and pubs period.

[@SeanLives]

@@gdwe1831 Nah mate, I've seen fights in bars and people use the glass as a weapon, and there's plenty of fights in bars.

[@Vemodets]

@@gdwe1831 people hate to break away from tradition but this should never ever be a risk. I think it should definitely be removed, personally. Although preventing violence of any kind in the first place would be more ideal, of course

[@paulwalters5349]

Hope he makes a full recovery good look fella🙏🏾

[@tvted6160]

10 years, pathetic

[@korsion]

I hope the guy that did this gets what he deserves in prison.

[@bigjob4096]

Karma will get the attacker in the end my friend🙏🏼 The drugs and the alcohol will get him in the end including the guilt ! take care fella❤

[@shibbymiyah6614]

This is so heartbreaking..a young man had his life snatched from him...

[@jasonfrost4483]

Pray the evil thing that did this rots away in prison

[@Gsosa-b8]

God protect him the rest of the way. Amen.

[@Sharp_Calidore]

there is no reason pint glasses bottles need to be made of glass, it all could easily be made of plastic

[@CalmDownJack]

yea but glass is fine, so that’s irrelevant - glass is better

[@asperFromTG]

Make petrochemical corporations richer and people less healthy, good job genius!

[@CyroNux]

Plastic is poison . I never drink from plastic

[@PlayTarky]

Sometimes better to do justice with our own hands, the system is BROKEN.

[@chuckc7815]

To have to go through this is devastating. So many sick people walk the streets of UK.

[@davidbingham8942]

What a ridiculous thing to happen,i will keep my fingers crossed for you to get your sight back,you're a brave man 🤞🤞🤞🤞

[@faceofdead]

The UK night clubs are stupidly dangerous. The UK youth is out of control.

[@jamessmall9880]

Guy who did it was 37

[@Spacemonkeymojo]

It shouldn't be up to governments to tell pub owners to use plastic instead of glass. If I owned a pub I would just do it myself, the government is useless.

[@leldeozolab.5338]

.. poor guy. He has such a stunning eyes! I pray for him to get his eyesight back!!!!

[@MillerTheOriginal]

I'm so sorry but this man has the heart of a Lion. The question is now how long before our government incorporate these change and do they at all. Knowing this country it will take years. Disgusting

[@Martin-oz6lr]

I've all the sympathy in the world for this guy, but the ID idea is a very dangerous one. If that were successful all it would take in the future is for one of his children/grandchildren to rub someone in power up the wrong way and they'll find themselves banned from pubs restaurants and shops everywhere. People need to be more careful what they wish for. That said, I wish this guy a full recovery 🙏

[@julierogers1155]

This happens so often that there is a term for it?

[@CountDuckEgg]

87,000 glassings a year

[@TayWoode]

@@CountDuckEggis that true? That’s over 200 a day, more for the weekend when more are out 😂

[@LEEHOLMES-gq2gj]

My thought's are with ya my friend

[@safecrackergold3743]

Big avents use plastic but you need to also ban bottles too as there’s many bars that will give you the bottle but really if he’d of got 20years that’s the only deterrent uk justice system is a joke

[@MrBass233]

It's sad what's happened and I really do feel for his family, I come from one of the roughest places in the uk that actually had the worst knife crime and underage pregnancies in the whole of the EU at one point and in my experience there is no such thing as an unprovoked attack, either you gave a funny look or held yourself the wrong way or simply didn't read a situation correctly, either way unprovoked attacks are a myth

[@Redsnapper123]

Absolutely 💯 horrible feel bad for the guy. However the focus should be on fixing our society not just banning and over regulating everything. This is a typical propaganda piece. Although I suspect this man is well intentioned.

[@randybackgammon890]

And how do we enforce law and order while spend 10 years 'fixing' society

[@Redsnapper123]

@@randybackgammon890 I am not saying you don’t enforce law and order. Not sure what you’re on about.

[@jujutrini8412]

Banning some things is part of fixing society! It’s not a bad idea to ban glass after a certain hour in certain locations ie violence hotspots in a city. I have known some pubs that have been doing this off their own back since the nineties!

[@Redsnapper123]

@@jujutrini8412 a drink 🥃 is not the same from a plastic glass.

[@jaywarren333]

@@jujutrini8412how has banning drugs ‘fixed’ society. People do them regardless and it is a massive waste of police and tax payers money to try and ‘force’ them to stop by imprisoning them. Especially when there’s plenty in prison. The Government shouldn’t waste time and money trying to be some nanny state and if they really did care about the people they wouldn’t let so many illegal immigrants enter the country.

[@d.o.y.vcaninebehaviour.hea1558]

Live in Australia. No glass in pubs or at festivals and concerts.

[@asperFromTG]

But borders wide open...

[@mario-qq7bq]

@@asperFromTGit worst in the USA

[@natbarron]

What? He was living in Perth WA actually. And there’s plenty of glass in pubs where I live in Australia.

[@pratikpatel1937]

They banned them at festivals why not clubs ?

[@ichrismoku]

Giving bars airport style security is a totally upside-down distortion of how society should run. The m'fer who did this had done it FIFTEEN TIMES BEFORE. He should have been in JAIL after the FIRST TIME. And you're seriously telling me the solution is to give everyone plastic pint glasses? Come off it. We need jails. LOTS AND LOTS OF JAILS. And a court system that USES THEM. The criminals should be the ones being punished, not ordinary people!!!!!!!! I despair of this place

[@kadar5799]

Absolutely agree, how can you intentionally blind a stranger for no reason, and then your punishment is much less than the damage you have caused, despite the chances of not getting caught and getting off without punishment, and despite the fact you've done it multiple times before. Crime is rewarded in this country.

[@davidyardley1292]

What a coward

[@jasonfrost4483]

Brave brave man unlike the coward that did this

[@christhomas5341]

I honestly do not think banning glass sounds reasonable, maybe harsher prison sentences would help.

[@Evelynlouise089]

Whats your doubts on it being unreasonable? Not having a go, genuine question. I think the glass to plastic is pretty reasonable and doesn’t take much to change. A lot of places already use plastic too. It saves on buying new glasses when they are smashed, you don’t have to worry about cleaning it up and the most important they can’t be used as a weapon. I wouldn’t want to drink out of one of those flimsy disposable cups in a bar but some places I’ve been to the only way to tell the difference is by the weight.

[@darksideofthemoon1002]

​@@Evelynlouise089obviously he's the entitled generation

[@arctic-1878]

They have a word for it? Glassed? Is this a thing in the UK?

[@JuniorD1975]

Plastic glasses is such a great idea and I’m sure it would be cheaper. Even use the same glass and go to the bar for a top up etc. Maybe do a ‘Starbucks’ thing where u go in and write your name on the plastic. So simple to do this and stop ‘glassing’ injuries. Carry on with your campaign Matthew. 👍❤️♿️

[@paulwoodford1984]

They can still blind people

[@TayWoode]

I worked in a very busy pub and you had to bring an empty glass back to get served, didn’t use the same glass but it was too busy and a bit too dangerous to go round and collect them in a big stack

[@flylowe46m38]

Glad I don’t drink at all

[@alicehammond7438]

Poor guy

[@hodaifabsasa]

Attacker was found to be Gareth Dean, 37

[@michaelcorleone7598]

I know a woman who was glassed in the face by another woman in a nightclub

[@rjkelectrical6086]

Hope your heeling up and hopefully you gain vision again 🙌🙌

[@giancarlocrumps]

If you take away a mans ability to see his own kids man you should rot in jail or have the same thing happen to u

[@gabrielletanner5339]

Labour have of course just let out of prison, hundreds of criminals....

[@pcskeng3607]

There are caps to prevent spiking

[@CCmagee3]

Why not just ban hitting people with the glass, oh wait.

[@ancientwisdom-ty4nb]

Been hunting d tube trying to find what justice been served. 10years not enough but at least he not scott free. We need the name and face if d attacker. I tell my children ; always say d Lord's prayer b4 u leave your home. Never engage anyone looking for trouble. They usually have nothing to lose, angry and wanting to do diabolical acts

[@HappyBike-rt2wj]

Leeds is so rough though, people go out drinking early and are back home early. The one out til late st night is dangerous.

[@PedroLeodis]

Eh?

[@MMAproAtGOLF]

At least he wasn’t shot

[@annepartington9002]

Feeling for him

[@tellmemore8837]

Great British justice.

[@kathyskeet8996]

My 19 year old granddaughter was hit on the head by a glass thrown in a local pub on last Thursday causing hospitalisation for three cuts to her face and a large bump over her left eye after the England v Denmark match. The assailant fled the bar, leaving her with her two friends to deal with assisting her. If I ever find out who did it I shall see that he pays for what he did.

[@willwud]

Absolutely no excuse for it but I’m thinking a few rugby lads in a bar are never far away from trouble………..

[@Marenqo]

Horrible, this is the worst part of British culture

[@BlueSkyCountry]

Being a hikikomori is even more appealing now. You can be a functional hikikomori, where you work just enough to make ends meet, and spend only the amount of time outside to commute to work and back and run errands, that's it. The rest of the time you can either play video games and travel the world via KZbin on your computer, or pack up your car and go into the wilderness to camp. True seclusion.

[@TreesRgreen123]

Thankfully he handed himself in though coz if he didnt then chances are he wud never have been caught

[@cinelrb]

Great

[@harbingerovdoom]

Translation : Man Have Been Taught A Valuable lesson.

[@CalmDownJack]

id system would be bad.

[@idontlikebeinghandled]

It's a shame but what father hangs out in night clubs lol hopefully his kids learn from this. Most ppl who end up getting killed or beat up chose to be in those types of environments.

[@nigachu8249]

Of coarse its leeds.😂

[@PatrickHobley]

How about ban nightclubs. Not glass

[@anonymous-jt8du]

Middle aged father out clubbing? 😂

[@loz1025]

How dare a middle age man go out and have a drink with friends !😮

[@anonymous-jt8du]

@@loz1025 lol sound like your on your last legs yourself 😂

[@loz1025]

@@anonymous-jt8du lol not yet ! But one day it will Come to us all ! I’ve done my fare share of clubs and bars over the years and bored of them now .. but if someone of any age still wants to go out they should without running the risk of being blinded ! Let me guess you were in favour of more lock Downs 🤣

[@TayWoode]

@@anonymous-jt8dulol is there an age limit now? I know you have to be 18+ but I didn’t realise there was a cut off age where you have to suddenly stay in, wear slippers and watch Last of the summer wine with a cup of warm Horlicks 😂

[@anonymous-jt8du]

@@TayWoode it's called maturity I'm only mid 30s and even I know nothing good ever happens going into town drinking

[@krislambert6625]

if he wasnt blinded this wouldnt be your goodmorning story people get glassed in the face very often because they mouth off! ...he was unlucky# ...GOOD MORNING....REALLY?

[@pizzaparty-r1c]

What was he doing at a bar/club? What is he, 20 years old? 🤡😆

[@justeclipse03]

He was going to a bar to hang out with his friends. I know you won’t understand since you don’t have any

[@pizzaparty-r1c]

@@justeclipse03 Only losers go to bars.

[@jaywarren333]

A ‘ban’ wouldn’t stop things like that happened. People could just put a glass in their pockets and save it for later if they felt like they might use it. It will achieve nothing. Banning things rarely does in reality.

[@krislambert6625]

you do not get glassed for no reason ....fact people

[@Onyx363]

lies

[@ronaldov09]

Fact? Yes they do, I know that for a fact.

[@mccarey5932]

Usually true but this guy was off his face on drugs. Probably imagined a reason to glass him

[@jeffknott1975]

Is he blind or does he just need to open his eyes? When you go to a place (bar) where everyone is there to get out of their heads on the drug alcohol bad things tend to happen!

[@Livinlivin836]

I’m sure those cowards went to the pub to purposely attack people who can’t defend themselves

[@drewhyland9574]

It's tragic what happened to this man and my heart goes out him but Banning glass is dumb If someone wants to hurt you they will find a way