NSW: Second man charged after wedding assault with broken bottle

AAP General News (Australia)
04-22-2010
NSW: Second man charged after wedding assault with broken bottle

SYDNEY, April 22 AAP - A second man has been charged over violence at a Sydney wedding
reception during which a man was assaulted with a broken wine bottle and his wife and
young son suffered injuries.

About 11pm (AEST) on April 10 police were called to reports of a man having been seriously
assaulted at a restaurant on Cross Street at Bankstown.

They found a 47-year-old man suffering puncture and slash wounds to his neck, chest,
back and face, believed to have been caused by a broken wine bottle.

The man's wife was also assaulted during the incident, while the couple's two-year-old
son received a laceration to his nose and other abrasions.

The man and boy required hospital treatment.

A 54-year-old man was arrested late the next day and charged with intent to cause grievous
bodily harm.

On Thursday a second man, aged 40, was charged with wounding a person with intent to
cause grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and affray.

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