A PLUMBER who smashed a pint glass in another man's face in a Tavistock bar has been ordered to pay £2,000 compensation. Adam Sharman, aged 25, of Blackabrook Avenue, Princetown, pleaded guilty to one charge of unlawfully wounding Nathan Endean, when he appeared before Plymouth Crown Court last Tuesday. Judge Francis Gilbert QC told Sharman he had avoided an immediate jail sentence only because he had swung the half-full beer glass without realising it was in his hand. As well as being ordered to pay Mr Endean £2,000, Mr Sharman was given a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to pay £400 court costs. He was also made the subject of a six-month curfew confining him to his home between 8pm and 7am, Friday to Sunday. Prosecutor David Gittins told the court Mr Sharman attacked Mr Endean after an argument in the basement of Jack Cham's on August 27 last year. Both men had been drinking. Mr Endean, who was celebrating the start of the football season with friends, approached Sharman in the bar. The court heard there was 'bad feeling' between Mr Sharman and another man in Mr Endean's group because of a woman. Mr Gittins said: 'According to Mr Endean, he decided to speak to the defendant to defuse the possibility of there being trouble." 'He suddenly became aware he had been hit in the face with a glass.' A witness said there had been a heated discussion between the two and he had seen Mr Sharman smash a glass in the complainant's face in a 'roundhouse hit'. The court heard Mr Endean suffered laceration to his cheek, upper eye lid and left eye as a result of the attack. Sentencing, Judge Gilbert said: 'Mr Endean has expressed his willingness to accept that you did not intend to cause him injury but rather that you swung the glass without realising you had it in your hand, probably because you were in drink. 'Had you intended to use that glass, you would go to prison immediately.'