A HONDA worker has narrowly avoided a jail term after smashing a beer glass into another man's face in a nightclub.

Carl Tronier, a team leader at the Swindon factory, was instead ordered to undertake 240 hours of community service.

He was also ordered to pay victim Simon Jones £2,000 in compensation.

Appearing at Gloucester Crown Court, 24-year-old Tronier admitted assault causing grievous bodily harm in Gloucester's Jumpin' Jack's nightclub.

Tronier, of Fisher's Road, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, carried out the attack on March 30.

Prosecutor Kate Branner said it happened on the club dance floor when Tronier lashed out at Mr Jones while holding a glass.

The glass shattered, causing cuts around Mr Jones' eyes, and fragments of glass cut other parts of his body.

Mr Jones fell backward from the impact of the glassing and then felt a man continuing to punch him, Miss Branner said.

He was left with four cuts to his face, each about a centimetre wide, which later had to be closed with surgical adhesive.

Miss Branner added that Tronier had made four previous court appearances, but never for violent offences.

Tronier's counsel, Rupert Lowe, said his client was at the club for a birthday celebration, and was very drunk at the time of the attack although he accepted that this was no excuse for his behaviour.

Tronier's girlfriend had been pushed on the crowded dance floor and this 'put him on the alert for trouble,' Mr Lowe said.

Judge Gabriel Hutton said he had only just been persuaded not to send Tronier to jail.