A regular in quiet local was glassed in the face and violently attacked after asking a stranger "where are you from?"

The stranger had been chatting away to a group of locals in a smoking area of the Kemble Brewery Inn, in Cheltenham, when one of the men said he did not sound as if he was from the town.

Out of the blue, the man turned nasty and launched a violent attack in the beer garden of the pub where people were finishing their Saturday night dinner, say regulars.

Police said they are investigating an unprovoked attack at the pub.

Kemble Brewery
Kemble Brewery

"It was absolutely horrendous," said landlady Karon Sayner about the incident at the pub in Fairview Street.

"He just turned and said 'you ask too many questions'.

"Then he picked a glass off the table and glassed him in the face repeatedly.

"It took a few stabs before the glass broke so it broke his teeth and cut all his lip and a chin.

"Tables and glasses started flying and there was blood everywhere.

"He was incredibly lucky, if it had been his neck it would have hit an artery and killed him.

"The attacker left shouting how he was going to kill somebody."

The beer garden at the Kemble

Karen was cooking in the kitchen when the attack started and came rushing in when she heard the commotion.

She later reviewed the incident on CCTV which she shared on social media to try and catch the man.

Neighbours later told her they had directed a man answering that description to the Kemble when he approached them in the street saying he had had a bad day and was looking for the nearest pub.

"This is a nice quiet little, local pub, not a big bar in the town centre, so you don't expect that kind of thing." she said of the pub.

"It's full of middle-aged people drinking real ale and wine. I think the average age last night was about 60 and people were justing finishing dinner when it happened.

"The locals are a friendly lot and chat to people to make them feel welcome.

"It was bizarre. One minute they were chatting away, shaking hands and the next minute he's repeatedly glassing somebody in the face. "

She said the victim, who is a regular, did not want an ambulance but she advised them to go to hospital for stitches and a tetanus injection.

A spokesman for Gloucestershire Constabulary said no arrests had been made by this morning.

He said: "Police were called to reports of an unprovoked attack at the Kemble Brewery at around 9.30pm on Saturday."