Thug gloated to pals he ‘took the Mike Tyson approach’ after biting off part of neighbour’s ear in row over all night music
Frank Jones, 54, ignored pleas by Steven Fenton to lower the volume and carried on blasting out his favourite songs all night
A THUG who bit off a neighbour's ear after in a row over late night music bragged he had taken the "Mike Tyson approach", a court heard.
Frank Jones, 54, ignored pleas by Steven Fenton to lower the volume and carried on blasting out his favourite songs all night.
The pair scuffled outside Jones's flat in the early hours of the morning as the row turned ugly last June.
And when Jones saw his neighbour again at 10am he punched him three times and chomped off a piece of his ear.
Prosecutor Timothy Ashmole said: "The defendant punched him to the back of his head and delivered a further two blows before there was any retaliation.
"A scuffle resulted and both men fell to the floor. Mr Fenton felt a sharp pain to his right ear.
"The defendant had bitten off part of Mr Fenton's ear. He boasted it was a 'Mike Tyson approach' before walking back into his flat.
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"It was a reference to Mike Tyson's infamous fight with Evander Holyfield in which he bit his ear."
Tyson famously gnawed off a one-inch chunk of the world heavyweight champion's right ear during a bout in Las Vegas in June 1997.
Jones, of Stoke-on-Trent, admitted causing grievous bodily harm and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Mr Fenton has had two operations on his ear and was also left with a permanent scar above his right eye.
Judge David Fletcher, jailing the attacker for two and a half years, said: “The complaints arose as a result of your music being too loud and upsetting your neighbour.
"You attacked him and in the course of that attack you bit off part of his ear accompanied by a less than appropriate comment.
"That resulted in a considerable amount of medical intervention which is ongoing. It must have been extremely painful.";
Last month we told how a TA soldier dressed as Colonel Gaddafi bit off half a man's ear in a brutal Halloween attack in Swansea.
Another victim who lost part of his ear in December says was was attacked by a stranger because he was wearing a Christmas jumper.
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