A CAMBORNE husband and wife have been accused of attacking a groom-to-be on his cowboy-themed stag night.
David Morford was out in Camborne with 12 to 15 friends who were all dressed in cowboy hats and checkered shirts.
Richard, 29, and Tania Bennetts, 42, went on trial on Monday at Truro Crown Court accused of head-butting and glassing him.
Iain White, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said on August 11 last year the group went first to the White Hart pub before moving on to Wetherspoon's, where Mr Morford, then aged 26, recognised the defendant.
Mr White said: "That person was a man he recalled who had caused an unwanted disturbance coincidentally on his brother's stag night some two or three years previously."
The friends moved on to the Tyacks Hotel where, after getting a drink Mr Morford, went to the toilets.
Mr White said Mr Bennetts came in shortly afterwards and started asking Mr Morford if he was someone else.
Mr White told the jury: "As David Morford turns to walk away Richard Bennetts head-butts him on the right-hand side of his face."
The court heard that in the ensuing scuffle, Mr Morford was escorted from the toilets by a member of the venue's bar staff and while he was being restrained, he was set upon by Mrs Bennetts.
"She swore at David Morford, who is in front of her, and then thrusts a half-pint glass directly into his face," said Mr White. "He was in fact utterly defenceless."
The glass shattered on impact and Mr Morford was taken to hospital with cuts to his mouth and forehead. Mr White said Mr Bennetts then punched Mr Morford's brother, Christopher, outside the venue, breaking his nose.
The Bennetts, of North Roskear Meadow, deny the charges.
When interviewed by police, Mr Bennetts, who is accused of assaulting David Morford and causing him actual bodily harm, admitted that he had been involved in an incident but said he had been the one struck on the way out of the toilets.
He also said he could not rule out having punched Christopher Morford, who he is accused of causing actual bodily harm, but said it would have been in self-defence.
Mrs Bennetts, who is charged with wounding Mr Morford with intent to do him grievous bodily harm or alternatively unlawfully wounding him, told police that hitting Mr Morford in the face had been an accident as a result of her being shoved and punched and stumbling.
The trial continues.
