Paul Doyle: Veteran tells how Liverpool parade attacker bit off a part of his ear in vicious assault | EUROtoday

A former Royal Navy reservist has described how the Liverpool parade attacker bit off a part of his ear in an assault 31 years in the past.

Stuart Lucas instructed the Daily Mail that Paul Doyle, who was on Tuesday jailed for 21 years and 6 months for mowing down dozens of Liverpool followers, chewed his ear and spat it out, leaving blood gushing from his head.

Mr Lucas had intervened to cease Doyle, who was then within the Royal Marines, from assaulting youthful Royal Navy Reserve sailors at an M6 service station in Lancashire in 1994.

Doyle was one among two marines on a bus with 28 sailors travelling to Barry, South Wales, to affix HMS Dovey and sail to Glasgow, the Daily Mail stated.

Mr Lucas witnessed Doyle, then 23, “doing a flying kick which laid two of the lads out”.

The now 68-year-old then “gave him a bear hug, strapping his arms to his sides” which stopped Doyle and led to him falling down.

Mr Lucas instructed the Daily Mail: “I still had him in a bear hug which was good, everything seemed to be going well and he couldn’t move apart from swearing.

“But he could move his head and at that he promptly sunk his teeth into my ear and said, ‘let go’.”

Mr Lucas, a father-of-one who lives in East Lothian, Scotland, stated the method known as a “biter” in Liverpool. He stated that Doyle may have inflicted it with out biting by way of.

“I’m sure he was trying to gouge someone’s eye out as well. It was all very quick and pretty serious what he did,” Mr Lucas added.

He stated he stood in shock with blood gushing out of his head whereas different sailors began trying to find the lacking chunk of his ear.

Once it was discovered, Mr Lucas received in an ambulance and took his ear in a bag to hospital the place it was reattached.

He stated he was discharged and, after getting a practice house, went to a hospital in Glasgow the place medics unwrapped the bandage to seek out his ear was past restoration.

Mr Lucas, on the time learning for a masters at Strathclyde University, declined to have his ear rebuilt as a result of it could have taken months.

Details of Doyle’s earlier offences had been outlined at his sentencing listening to at Liverpool Crown Court for the parade crash.

In October 1991, on the finish of Doyle’s 32-week coaching interval on the Commando Training Centre in Lympstone, Devon, he had what he later described as a “scuffle” with males in a nightclub and, after he was thrown out, punched one other individual within the face a number of occasions.

He was convicted of a piece 20 assault and fined by Exeter Magistrates’ Court.

In February 1992, he was convicted of two army offences: one among utilizing violence to a superior officer and one among conduct to the bias of fine order and army self-discipline and, in July that 12 months, he was convicted of a army offence equal to prison injury.

Doyle served within the army for 4 years, beginning with the Royal Engineers earlier than enlisting within the Marines in 1991, however didn’t see energetic service, the court docket heard.

He was “discharged with services no longer required” in 1993, 22 months after enlisting, the court docket heard.

He was stated to have unsuccessfully challenged the discharge.

In November 1994, whereas serving with the Royal Marine Reserve, Doyle was jailed for 12 months for inflicting grievous bodily hurt after biting off the ear of Mr Lucas.

When interviewed earlier this 12 months, Doyle stated he had turn into concerned in a drunken struggle with sailors.

Following his launch from jail in 1995, Doyle was stated to have “taken steps to live a positive and productive life”, going to school, working in positions of duty and having a household.