Eye-gouge man jailed; Three years for attack on officer.Byline: By GARETH LIGHTFOOT A "SCHIZOID schizoid /schiz·oid/ (skit´soid) 1. denoting the traits that characterize the schizoid personality. 2. " man who tried to gouge out Verb 1. gouge out - make gouges into a surface; "The woman's spiked heels gouged out the wooden floor" cut out - form and create by cutting out; "Picasso cut out a guitar from a piece of paper" the eye of a policeman has been jailed for three years. PC Andrew Watson Andrew Watson (born May 1857, Demerara, British Guiana; died in Sydney, Australia, date unknown) was the world's first black international football player, capped three times for Scotland between 1881 and 1882 and considered one of the top ten most important players of the 19th had never seen such a forceful attack in his 18 years of police service before the savage assault outside Stockton's Asda supermarket. David Forsyth David Forsyth is a name shared by several people:
When PC Watson hit him with a baton to restrain him, Forsyth forced him to the ground, tried to gouge out his eye and bit his wrist hard, prosecutor Jolyon Perks told Teesside Crown Court yesterday. PC Watson felt his eye was "about to burst", and was freed only with the help of colleague PC Victoria Robson and store staff. The assailant had been acting strangely and aggressively outside the Portrack Lane store. He did not respond to several baton strikes. Forsyth, of Walton Gardens, Portrack, Stockton, admitted the actual bodily harm assault from the early hours of July 3 last year. He said he did not remember it. James Kemp, defending, said Forsyth, who had been violent with police twice before, was under care but not deemed to need detention in a mental institution. Forsyth apologised for his "relapse" after years of stability. Judge Michael Taylor said Forsyth was "schizoid", had long been treated in the community but had lost control: "The reality is that on occasions you lose your head. "It was a prolonged, defiant, violent and threatening incident. "That police officer's sight was not put at long-term risk, but that was more by luck than good judgment." He said he had to show such attacks were not tolerated and keep Forsyth away from the public as he was stabilised. PC Watson said today: "I am overjoyed with the sentence. I really did think that he was going to gouge gouge (gouj) a hollow chisel for cutting and removing bone. gouge n. A strong curved chisel used in bone surgery. gouge a hollow chisel for cutting and removing bone. my eye out." He thanked PC Robson and the Asda security guard for their help trying to restrain Forsyth: "If they hadn't it could have been a lot worse." CAPTION(S): DETAINED: David Forsyth, above |
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