Public prosecutors say they want Max Barnes jailed for five years and made to pay £23,000 in compensation if convicted of a crime of wounding with a dangerous weapon.
A British man has been arrested over an alleged broken bottle attack that left a Magaluf doorman needing more than 50 stitches.
The holidaymaker is alleged to have assaulted his victim by surprise in the Spanish hotspot after being asked to leave a bar in the brash party strip of Punta Ballena because he was misbehaving. Public prosecutors say they want Max Barnes to be jailed for five years and made to pay £23,000 in compensation, if he is convicted of the crime of wounding with a dangerous weapon.
The first pictures of the injuries he allegedly caused the doorman, a 34-year-old man from Lithuania, emerged overnight. One shows the unnamed bouncer with a huge stitch across his right cheek. Barnes was held in the UK on an international arrest warrant after paying £13,000 bail to get out of prison and flying back home.
Officials in Majorca issued the arrest order after he went AWOL and failed to respond to court communications. It was not immediately clear today when the fugitive Brit had been made a wanted man or where in the UK he had been held. Barnes, 19 at the time of the early-hours incident on July 31 2019, claimed after his arrest by Civil Guard officers that he had acted in self-defence by responding to a previous assault.
He was held and accused of criminal behaviour after investigators viewed CCTV cameras at The Plaza Bar, described online as a vibrant bar at the end of Magaluf’s bustling Punta Ballena strip. The Brit is understood to have returned to the UK a few days after the incident after stumping up his bail bond.
