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A man who bit off the tip of a Good Samaritan’s nose and spat it out in the street has been jailed for six years.

The horrific incident – which left the victim with a hole in his face – was captured on CCTV.

The victim who had been out celebrating his 50th birthday was left with terrible injuries after he went to intervene when he saw a young woman being kicked and punched in a shopping precinct, a court heard.

Robert Powell shouted to attacker Daniel Reynolds “get off her”.

But Mold Crown Court heard today how the defendant turned on him – and bit him, with force, to the nose.

Reynolds was said to have “bounced up and down” calling “come on then, come on”.

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A police officer was able to recover the tip of the victim’s nose from near the HSBC bank in Mold town centre, the judge heard.

But it was not possible to re-attach it, said prosecuting barrister Matthew Dunford.

However, he said surgeons had done a brilliant job in re-constructing Mr Powell’s nose, although he faced possible further surgery.

Reynolds, 20, of Glan Alun in Mold, was jailed for six years after he admitted a charge of wounding with intent.

He claimed not to remember the incident after drinking a bottle of vodka.

Judge Niclas Parry told him: “It is frankly... almost incomprehensible that one human being can act towards a second human being in the way that you did.”

He said the victim had heard a scream which he described “like an animal caught in a trap”.

The judge said: “All he did was run to help. He found you standing over a female who was lying on the floor, carrying out a sustained attack, punching and kicking her.

“He pulled you away but you bit him to the face.

“You bit his nose off. It is no exaggeration to say that to the lay observer you left him as if he had a hole in the middle of his face.”

The judge told him: “You knew what you were doing after drinking a litre of vodka.”

Judge Parry described it as a “gratuitous act of extreme violence” which resulted in hours of painstaking re-constructive surgery.

He added: “One can only wonder in amazement at the skills of the surgery.”

The surgery involved replacing the skin to Mr Powell’s nose and removing cartilage from between his eyes to re-build the tip of the nose.

Defending barrister Myles Wilson said that his client was full of remorse.

Reynolds told police that he wished he had “his head kicked in” that night and had not bitten the victim, he said.

The defendant was the primary carer for his mother, the court heard.

Reynolds also received a concurrent four-month prison sentence for the assault on his partner Kayleigh Price which sparked off the whole event.