AN INTERNATIONAL 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, 29, was "provoked" into assaulting Dean Barry.
Three weeks earlier, Mr Barry had accused father-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, he flew into a rage.
He began shouting and lunged towards him with a four-inch blade, causing a cut to his chest.
Jailing Sarsfield 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, mercifully he sustained no serious injury, but a moment's reflection will make anyone realise that you easily could have caused him serious injury, particularly as one sustained injury was in the region of his left chest."
