THE moment an army driver bit the flesh off a man’s face in a vicious nightclub attack has been shown in a new video.
Footage shared by Thames Valley Police shows Keenan Samuelson sinking his teeth into a fellow clubber's cheek at The Bridge Club in Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford, in April 2017.
On Friday, Samuelson was jailed for nine and a half years for the unprovoked attack, which left victim Nikitas Arnaoutoglou, a psychiatrist who was out with friends and did not know his attacker, permanently scarred.
The video starts with Samuelson, 27, of Tyne Road, Abingdon, standing with police outside the central Oxford nightclub.
One voice is heard to say: "We are going to need to call an ambulance. Half his face is missing."
Full story: Army thug bit flesh off man's face at Bridge nightclub
The video then cuts to CCTV footage of the altercation on the RnB dancefloor, which started as a verbal disagreement.
It shows Samuelson pouring a drink over the victim’s head, before grabbing his neck and biting him a number of times.
Clubbers who witnessed the early hours violence previously described seeing flesh ‘fly’ across the dance floor.
The injuries have since been described by a police detective as the ‘worst he's ever seen'.
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In sentencing Keenan Samuelson at Oxford Crown Court on Friday, Judge Peter Ross called the attack ‘unspeakable savagery’.
🚨| Man jailed for more than 9 years for repeatedly biting victim’s cheek in Oxford nightclub
— Thames Valley Police (@ThamesVP) March 3, 2019
Keenen Samuelson, 27, Tyne Road, Abingdon was found guilty of one count of section 20 wounding.
The investigating officer claimed: 'It's the worst injury I've ever seen in my career.' pic.twitter.com/sRmahZe6Ex
Samuelson had denied wounding with intent but admitted wounding, but at his trial last month jurors took just two hours to unanimously convict him.
He was jailed for nine and a half years and must pay a victim surcharge.
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