STUART HALL, now 22, was given an automatic life sentence after being convicted of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
The drunken teenager smashed a beer bottle into his victim’s face during at attack in Stockport.
He had a previous conviction for grievous bodily harm after he stabbed a man in the chest with a screwdriver.
The judge gave him an automatic life sentence but said that he could be eligible for release after just two years in prison.
Warren Harris, 38, of Tredworth, Gloucestershire, who had been convicted of a second serious assault on a former girlfriend, was sentenced to life in 2001 with a minimum term reduced on appeal to 23 months.
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Leo Noorkoiv, 44, of Walsgrave, Coventry, who had two previous convictions for violence, was jailed for life in 1998 on two counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, with a minimum term imposed of two and a half years.