A HACKSAW-WIELDING bar owner meted out a “continual rain of blows” on a customer, jurors heard yesterday.

Hugh Anderson, who runs the Hi Lo Jamaican Eating House in Cowley Road, East Oxford, denies wounding Sean Tizard with intent and an alternative charge of unlawful wounding.

On day two of Anderson’s trial at Oxford Crown Court, witness William Green said he went to the venue with Mr Tizard at about 2am on October 3.

Mr Green, who was refused service at the bar for being too drunk and admitted being “probably quite close” to being sick, said he intervened to stop the attack outside the entrance.

He said: “I was putting my body between the continual rain of blows.”

Mr Green said he was outside the venue when he saw Mr Tizard through the window having a verbal argument with Anderson before it turned physical outside. He said the 67-year-old defendant was the only man to use violence. He added Anderson “was holding the hacksaw in his right hand and he struck Sean”.

Peter Lownds, defending, claimed Anderson had been pushed off his stool by Mr Tizard before the latter was taken outside by a group of other men and he must have suffered his injuries as he was taken outside.

He added: “In your drunken state and frightened state you have wrongly identified Mr Anderson as the attacker of Mr Tizard.” Mr Green replied: “That’s incorrect.”

The trial continues.