A MAN has been jailed after he cut his father’s face with a kitchen knife.

Paul Alan Nicholls, 40, was sentenced to 28 weeks in prison after admitting a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm against his 65-year-old father, Robert, on March 24.

Prosecutor Carolyn Branford-Wood told Dorchester Crown Court that the pair were at their home in Orchard Avenue, Bridport, and the defendant had been drinking heavily.

She said after his father asked him to go shopping with him Nicholls ‘became verbally aggressive’ and started pushing Mr Nicholls senior around the house.

Miss Branford-Wood said Mr Nicholls snr could see his son had a knife.

She said: “He was pointing it towards his eyes and saying: ‘I’m going to cut your eyes out. I’m going to cut your throat.’ “It was held approximately four inches from his father’s face before he lowered it.

“Robert Nicholls then feels a pain on the lower left side of the face and realises he has been cut by the knife.”

At the address officers recovered the knife with a blade around five inches long. Miss Branford-Wood said the cut to Mr Nicholls’ face was not deep and he did not require medical assistance.

Leslie Smith, mitigating, said his client had a long term battle with alcohol and both he and his father had been affected by the death of his mother in September last year.

He added that Nicholls felt ashamed at what he had done.