A thug is facing jail for biting off a friend’s ear after they fell out one evening.

Gurmukh Goraya, of Vauxhall Crescent, Northfleet, was convicted of unlawful wounding and cleared of wounding with intent.

Balraj Sohal, of Coutts Avenue, Shorne, was cleared of both charges.

They both denied the charges.

Maidstone Crown Court heard how Goraya, 32, twice sank his teeth into Satish Kumar’s right ear.

It happened while Mr Kumar was house-sitting at his brother Onkar’s home in Maritime Gate, Gravesend, on February 19 last year.

He and Goraya, known as Gus, decided to watch football on television together and have a few drinks. They were later joined by Goraya’s friend Sohal.

Mr Kumar said Goraya and Sohal, 19, became “boisterous” when after midnight he told them it was time for them to leave.

Sohal, he claimed, struck him over the head with a whisky bottle and after he was bundled to the floor Goraya bit into his ear.

“I just couldn’t believe what was happening,” he said. “Everything was just squirting out of me.

"he finally got what he wanted – he took a piece of my ear off…” – victim satish kumar

“Because my elbows were in the way, he couldn’t get a good grip on my ear with his teeth. He finally got what he wanted – he took a piece of my ear off.”

Asked by Danny Robinson, prosecuting, how painful it was, he replied: “Very. I was in a state of shock.

“I could feel some sharpness around the ear area. I was struggling. I lost a piece of my ear. I don’t know where it went. I am not aware of anybody finding it on the floor.

“I just blanked out and came round at about 6am or 7am. It was just a blur. I needed to get some attention. There was blood on the wall.”

He went to Darent Valley Hospital and was referred to a plastic surgeon at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead.

“They helped to reconstruct my ear,” he added.

Goraya admitted biting Mr Kumar’s ear but claimed it was in self-defence.

Judge Martin Joy released Goraya on bail until sentence on June 29, but warned: “I want to make it clear to you, the reality is this is a serious offence and the injury is serious. On any view, it was a very nasty injury.”