A MAN from Newton Abbot has admitted injuring a pub customer with a bottle opener after a confrontation. Adam Berry pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm on what was due to be the first day of his trial at Exeter Crown Court. Other charges of wounding and possessing a bottle opener as a weapon are not being proceeded with and Berry has been told his sentence may be suspended.

The charges related to an incident in a pub and on a bus in January last year. Berry, aged 29, of Woodland Road, Newton Abbot, was bailed by Judge Stephen Climie to await sentence next month after a probation report.

The judge told him he will be sentenced by another judge but can expect less than 18 months, which is likely to be suspended if the report is favourable.

He said: ‘The sentencing judge will need to know what is happening in your life and to what extent you remain a potential risk to others.’

Mr William Parkhill, defending, said there had been an injury which needed gluing in hospital but was not the most serious of its kind.

He said Berry has stayed out of trouble since this offence and is living a more stable life.