A man was 'glassed' following a row at a pub in a 'cowardly and unprovoked' attack, a court heard.
Cane Mill, 26, has been jailed for two years following the incident at a boozer in Moston.
The victim, also 26, had been in the watering hole with his brother and a friend.
They went to the shops, and after Mill arrived a dispute arose.
A fight broke out and Mill landed four blows to the man's head.
The pair were split up, and the victim later said 'who the f*** do you think you are hitting for no good reason?'
There was a further confrontation, and Mill hit the man to the face with a 'hard object'.
A judge said it was 'almost certainly a glass or glass bottle'.
His face was covered in blood.
Mill picked up another glass but then left the area.
The victim has been left with permanent scarring from his injury, sustained in May last year.
In a statement read by prosecutor Julian Taylor, the man claimed Mill was a 'danger to others' and felt he couldn't go to Moston to see his family.
He said he had to take off four weeks from work to recover, losing earnings as a result.
Mill was arrested in June last year, and has remained in custody since.
He was recalled on a previous nine year sentence for grievous bodily harm, from which he had been released and was on licence at the time of the attack.
Because he was in prison on recall, the more than 13 months he has spent in custody won't count towards his two year sentence.
Defending, Adam Watkins said there had been extra delays in the case, and that Mill ordinarily should have been sentenced by April.
Mill, of Burntwood Walk, Moston, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding.
Sentencing, Judge Patrick Field QC told him: "It was on any view a cowardly and unprovoked attack, and you were in my judgement in the very least highly reckless in what you did.
"Striking him in that way could have caused a great deal more by way of injury than was in fact the case."
