Defendant denies glassing man
A man alleged to have glassed someone in a fight in Wem told police it was he who was attacked.
Arron Chelmick, aged 25, of High Street, Wem, has denied wounding Benjamin Goulding on July 6 last year, a cut to the cheek that needed 18 stitches.
The incident happened in Noble Street in Wem.
Chelmick is alleged to have hit Mr Goulding, who was on a push bike, by throwing a beer bottle, before smashing a second on his victim.
At Shrewsbury Crown Court on Friday the jury read the defendant's police interview.
In it Chelmick says he came across a group of people in Noble Street with Mr Goulding 'scrapping' with another man.
"I asked what was going on and Ben picked me up by my legs and slammed me on the floor," he said.
"I was drinking a beer at the time, it might have smashed on the floor or he might have hit the low wall, I don't know."
"I didn't hit him with the bottle."
He told police he himself suffered injuries to his arms.
Chelmick went on to describe what he said was an attack on himself like a wrestling move.
"He just 'suplexed' me, picked me up off the floor and slammed me down. Maybe the bottle flew out of my hand, but I didn't touch him with it."
The trial continues.
