A warrant has been issued for the arrest of 34-year-old Gloucester man who attacked another man and seriously wounded him because he was 'in a funk after someone took his cider' in the hotel where he was living.

David Collins, of Worcester Street, Gloucester, but living at the London Hotel on London Road, Stroud, at the time of the assault, has pleaded guilty to causing Royston Hall grievous bodily harm on December 11, 2017.

He was due to be sentenced today at Gloucester Crown Court, after Judge Ian Lawrie QC adjourned the case on December 10 last year for a probation report.

However, Collins failed to attend the sentencing hearing, and the court heard he had not kept his appointment for the probation report.

Judge Lawrie issued a warrant for Collins arrest.

At the last hearing when Collins was asked to enter a plea he said: “I am guilty of being an a***hole in the wrong place at the wrong time, and if someone got hurt it shouldn't have happened. It happened.”