A MAN stabbed a friend in the neck after celebrations at winning a pub quiz turned sour.

Ashley Day suffered a 10cm-long wound after he was attacked by Michael Ellis in the early hours of December 30.

Father-of-one Ellis, who has previous convictions for hitting a man with an empty beer bottle in a nightclub and assaulting a woman, was jailed for two years at Oxford Crown Court on Friday, having earlier admitted unlawful wounding.

Nigel Daly, prosecuting, said Ellis, 23, had been drinking in Banbury after earlier winning a pub quiz, and met Day in a kebab shop.

The pair, along with three women and another man, went back to Ellis’s house in Forgeway in the town to continue “drinking and playing games”, Mr Daly said.

After a scuffle, Mr Day left the house, only to knock on the door asking for his mobile phone.

Mr Daly said: “He wasn’t back in the house for very long when he felt a blow to the neck with what he felt was a serrated blade.”

Terence Woods, defending, said drink and provocation played a major part in the offence.