Overview
- Cardiff Crown Court sentenced Alexander Horton, 34, for an unprovoked attack on a nurse at Bridgend’s Princess of Wales Hospital on October 30, 2024.
- He put the nurse in a headlock and struck her face with a sharpened pen as she carried out nightly checks, before staff restrained him.
- The victim was treated in A&E for eyebrow lacerations and temporary vision disturbance and now lives with two facial scars and ongoing fear at work.
- Horton told police he has schizophrenia, said he had missed his medication that day, requested valium, and later expressed remorse.
- Judge Paul Hobson said the assault had a profound effect on the victim, with mitigation noting no previous convictions and no further incidents in care.