A STANLEY knife slasher from Somerset has been jailed for a horrific attack which left his victim scarred for life.

Jake Frew pulled the blade out during a fight, inflicting at least three wounds.

He later sent a group Snapchat message saying: "Someone got eight to the face with my Stanley."

Victim Jamie Vokes was left with permanent facial scars so gruesome he did not want his family to see.

He had an inch-long flap of skin hanging from his temple and cuts to both cheeks needing multiple stitches.

Frew, who had been drinking, got into a fight with Mr Vokes after an argument in a pub reignited in a room where he was staying in Exeter while visiting an old schoolfriend.

CCTV showed Mr Vokes being let into the flat on January 18 and coming out covered in blood 80 seconds later.

Few went on the run but was traced to Staffordshire. He claimed he was acting in self-defence.

Frew, 28, also known as Hobday, of Bampfylde Street, Exeter, but previously of Drum Avenue, Glastonbury, and Kingston Road, Street, admitted wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

He was jailed for six years at Exeter Crown Cort by Mr Recorder Malcolm Galloway, who told him: "It is obvious that after the event you had no remorse.

"The attack plainly had a substantial effect on the victim.

“The photos which were taken at the hospital can only be described as horrific. The victim statement shows they have changed his life.

"He will always have the scars for the rest of his life and he feels people now judge him by the way that he looks.”

Herc Ashworth, prosecuting, said Mr Vokes had an argument with his girlfriend at a pub and they returned to his flat in Bampfylde Street.

She went to a nearby room to carry on drinking with Frew and two others. Mr Vokes was attacked as soon as he went to talk to her.

Mr Vokes’s impact statement said: “That day changed my life. I think about it day and night. The scars will last for the rest of my life. I feel I look like Frankenstein. People stare at me.”

Rogan Beach, 29, of The Sanctuary, Glastonbury, who played a lesser part in the fight, admitted assault causing actual bodily harm and was fined £600 with £500 costs at an earlier hearing.

Nigel Wraith said the attack was an impulsive response to a fast-moving situation which Frew regrets.