A bride walked down the aisle to find her groom covered in stitches having been glassed in the face the night before their big day.

Scott Richard, 31, nearly lost an eye and was left permanently scarred from the attack during a pub quiz a day before his wedding.

The first time his bride Adele, 34, saw his mangled face was at the alter the next day.

Scott was attacked by Tyler Plumridge, 28, a stranger who had joined Scott’s quiz team at Singleton Barn in Ashford, Kent, before he was caught stealing a wallet and a phone.

He was asked to hand the stuff back and to leave the pub but instead stripped to his pants before throwing a pint glass into Scott’s face.

The carpenter said: ‘I still have nightmares about it now where I wake up in a cold sweat and can’t get back to sleep, the flashbacks are terrible.

‘The whole incident was just so out of the blue, we’d only gone out for a few quiet drinks, but as soon as he threw the glass at my face there was blood everywhere.

‘I had to be rushed to A&E straight away where they spent hours picking glass from my eye ball.

‘Doctors thought they might have to take my whole eye out and advised that I’d have to miss the wedding if so… it was awful.’

Scott had to call Adele to break the news and said his entire wedding day was ‘really hard’ as he was in horrendous pain.

He also admits he ‘looked a right state’ in all of his wedding photos.

Scott said: ‘I was bruised, bandaged up and scarred – our two-year-old son was clearly worried when he saw me looking all mangled up and kept asking if I’d fallen over.

‘Thankfully the photographer was clever with the pics and we got some decent ones where I look OK but it really was a nightmare.’

Attacker Plumridge, was spared jail after pleading guilty to GBH and was handed a suspended sentence and ordered to pay Scott £1,000 in compensation within three months.

Adele and Scott, who have been together for five years, and have a son, Oscar, said they feel let down by the ‘very lenient’ sentence

The couple said they had been saving for two years for their £18,000 wedding day at Cooling Castle Barn in Rochester and it was almost ruined.

Adele said: ‘Scott was forced to put a brave face on it for our whole wedding day but it was clear that he wasn’t himself.

‘When I first saw him as I walked up the aisle, my stomach lurched, I thought I might be sick.

‘I just couldn’t bare to see how bad the damage was.

‘He looked dreadful, despite my makeup artist having a go at disguising some of the bruising etc.

‘He was popping pain medication all day and had a banging headache throughout.

‘Our son was scared to even look at his own dad and kept asking me “what happened to Daddy?”.’

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