Emma Scott successfully secures an acquittal for student charged with Grievous Bodily Harm with intent after blinding a fellow student with a pool cue.

Mr Winter had used a pool cue to hit a fellow student at a college near Oxford and had pleaded Guilty to inflicting Grievous Bodily Harm.  The issue at trial was intent.

Emma argued that Mr Winter had lost it after enduring an evening of his fellow student’s drunken behaviour and inappropriate advances towards female colleagues, intending only to hurt him and not cause him serious injury.  Horrifically, the cue made contact with the eye.

The jury acquitted Mr Winter, accepting that he had not intended to cause really serious bodily harm.

Emma was instructed by Ann Ridge of Howells.

Read about this case in the press here.