A CHARITY fundraiser who glassed a man in the face while he was collecting money for a hospice in pubs was yesterday jailed for nine months.

Sean Warren-Taylor was struck after he “rightly” intervened in a marital argument Andrew Robinson was having at a club in Middlesbrough in April.

Robinson said during a trial last month that his innocent victim was a “busybody” who should not have been getting involved in other people’s business.

However, a judge said Mr Warren-Taylor was correct to intervene after Robinson, 25, spat in the face of his wife, Claire, during an argument about money.

The dispute flared at The Dormans Club, in Linthorpe, while Robinson – dressed as cartoon character Scooby Do – was raising money for a local hospice.

Mr Warren-Taylor swore at Robinson after he spat at Mrs Robinson, and had a glass thrust into his face, just under his eye, causing superficial cuts. Father-of-one Robinson, of Alnwick Court, Middlesbrough, denied a charge of assault causing actual bodily harm, but was found guilty after a trial.

The judge, Recorder Andrew Campbell, said he rejected Robinson’s claim that he did not realise the glass was in his hand when he struck out.

He said: “He was not a busybody, in my judgement. He was a member of the public who was concerned, and rightly so, by your boorish and abusive behaviour. He remonstrated, and in this court’s judgement, deserves praise for remonstrating.”

Teesside Crown Court heard how Robinson has a conviction from January 2009 for wounding for his part in a fracas in a different pub.

Aisha Wadoodi, in mitigation, asked for leniency from the court because of the “disproportionate harm” prison would have on Robinson’s family.

She said Robinson was worried that his wife would be unable to cope with the couple’s disabled three-year-old daughter by herself, and said: “If he was sent to prison, his whole family could fall apart.

“I am asking the court to give him one final chance. He certainly does not present as a man who goes round looking for violence. He was collecting for charity.”