CCTV footage shows dramatic moment attacker glassed the victim and fled the pub

A man has been jailed for smashing a glass into a man’s face at the Kentish Drovers pub in Peckham.

Dramatic CCTV footage shows the moment Anjungi Lam, 35, attacked a 23-year-old man in Peckham.

At about 10:30pm on March 5, the victim and his 20-year-old boyfriend arrived holding hands at the pub in Peckham High Street.

They were choosing drinks at the bar when Lam raced towards the victim and smashed a pint glass against the right side of his face.

Glass fragments cut the victim’s nose, lips and neck, and chipped his tooth and injured his cornea. Flying glass also hit his boyfriend in the eye.

Lam then ran out of the pub. But he was identified via CCTV and arrested on May 19.

He had also worked at the pub for three months, but was sacked for lateness.

Lam, of Addington Road in Croydon, admitted grievous bodily harm at Inner London Crown Court on Friday, June 23.

He was sentenced to two years in prison on November 17.

Investigating officer PC Lance Sharrock, from Southwark’s Community Safety Unit, said: “This was an entirely unprovoked incident. Lam did not know the victim or his partner. They had not spoken nor had any disagreement to provoke such a violent attack.

“The victims felt Lam must have been motivated by homophobia as they entered the pub holding hands and we began a hate crime investigation.

“Lam was quickly identified and I am pleased at his sentence which shows that incidents of this nature will not be tolerated.”