Thug bottled Leeds nightclub reveller and savagely beat woman in a taxi
A thug who hit a nightclub reveller with a bottle, later dished out a brutal assault on a woman before the first incident had reached court.
Nathan Fraser threw a glass at the woman then punched and kicked her before slamming a taxi door on her leg.
He was jailed at Leeds Crown Court after admitting charges of Section 20 GBH without intent, ABH and assault.
Fraser had been at Pryzm nightclub in Leeds in the early hours of September 17, 2022, when he pushed a man before raising his arm while holding a glass bottle and striking it down hard on the man’s head.
Luckily, the bottle did not smash, but the victim suffered cuts to his head and ear and he was taken to A&E.
Security staff were able to detain Fraser, who claimed he was acting in self defence, but the unprovoked incident was caught on CCTV.
In a victim impact statement, read out by prosecutor Victoria Barker, the man said he has been left with a scar on his head on which his hair had not grown back.
He said: “I will have to live with the physical scarring and mental torment.”
Meanwhile, Fraser went on to attack the female on January 25, 2025. He had been living at the Black Bull in Clayton, Bradford, and had been drinking in the pub that night.
A woman whom he knew arrived in the pub at around 10.20pm. Ms Barker said Fraser was “staggering around” from being “heavily intoxicated”.
He became verbally abusive when he saw the woman. She tried to ignore him but he continued to shout.
The woman became upset and decided to leave, with Fraser throwing a glass at her, which Ms Barker said “flew past her head” and missed.
Having left, she got into a booked taxi but Fraser came running out shouting and screaming at her.
She got in to the taxi but the 21-year-old ran up and punched her four or five times to the face using both fists. He then kicked her hard before slamming the taxi door on her leg.
Fraser, now of Lytham Road, Blackpool, was later arrested and gave a no-comment interview.
Mitigating, Stephen Littlewood, said Fraser had a difficult upbringing and has post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
He said he had “taken significant steps to rehabilitate himself”, having moved to Blackpool to work.
The judge, Recorder Geoffrey Pritchard KC told Fraser that the attack on the female “must have been terrifying”.
He jailed him for three years and gave him a restraining order to keep him away from the woman.