An international amateur boxer who attacked a doorman at The Oxton Bar and Terrace has been jailed

Apr 22 2009 by Carrie Catterall, Bromborough and Bebington News

AN amateur boxer who attacked a doorman for making a false allegation against him has been jailed.

Liverpool crown court heard well-known boxer Edward Sarsfield was "provoked" into assaulting Dean Barry.

Three weeks earlier Mr Barry had accused dad-of-two Sarsfield of an extremely serious offence, but the court heard the allegation was completely unfounded.

When Sarsfield then bumped into Mr Barry, working at the Oxton Bar and Terrace, Oxton, he flew into a rage.

He began shouting and lunged towards him with a four inch blade, causing a cut to his chest.

Jailing him for 21 months, Judge Ian Trigger said: “I accept that there was a measure of provocation, which at least explains the start of this incident.”

But he told Sarsfield, who clutched a rosary: "You used that blade to lunge towards Mr Barry. You easily could have caused him serious injury."

Sarsfield, of North Dingle, Kirkdale, later admitted unlawful wounding, possession of a knife and affray on October 25, last year.