Stabbed landlord Snaz Martin saved by beer belly
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by Lynn Cox
A pub landlord, who was stabbed by a thug he threw out of
his pub, was told by doctors his beer belly stopped the knife from
damaging his vital organs.
Snaz Martin, 43, was attacked outside his pub, The Britannia in
Gillingham High Street, last year.
The blade narrowly missed his prostate gland and doctors who
patched him up at Medway Maritime Hospital told him it was
lucky he had that extra inch of fat as his injuries could have been
much worse if he'd been skinny.
Mr Martin said: "The doctor said I was lucky I had a bit of fat
around my belly area as the knife would have penetrated my vital
organs otherwise.
"I'm not that big - I only weigh 13 stone and I'm 5ft 8in -
but I do have a bit of a beer belly. I did laugh when they told me,
but I don't remember much after that as the doctors had given me a
lot of medication."
The married dad-of-two, who also has two stepchildren and is a
grandad, had thrown Paul Whibley, 24, out of the pub last
January after the thug pulled the knife after becoming rowdy
inside.
Whibley then started kicking the pub’s door and Mr Martin went
outside to tell him to go away, but was stabbed.
He said: "I didn't even realise I'd been stabbed at first, it
was only when I came back in the pub and everyone saw the blood on
me. We'd never seen the guy before, he wasn't a regular."
Whibley, of Burling Road, Snodland, was given a four-year prison
sentence recently at Canterbury Crown Court, after pleading guilty
to wounding with intent.
Mr Martin added: "I'm pleased he went to prison."
Thursday, February 25 2010
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