A THUG who bit his sister's boyfriend's ear off in a "barbaric piece of violence" has been jailed for 11 years.
John Gregory, 29, of Maxey Road, Romford, ripped off the top part of Shahzad Qureshi's left ear before spitting it on the ground.
Mr Qureshi suffered immense pain in the attack that happened on December 3 last year, and needed plastic surgery to correct the permanent disfigurement, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.
The IT consultant was also forced to take two months off work and had to endure the taunts of colleagues and friends.
Mr Qureshi claims he has suffered nightmares and feels insecure about his appearance as a result.
A jury had already convicted Gregory of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and of stealing Mr Qureshi's watch during the beating.
It emerged Gregory was jailed for biting a bus driver during an unprovoked attack in 2008.
Passing sentence, Judge Murray Shanks described the attack as "a shocking and barbaric piece of violence".
The judge told Gregory: 'This was a sustained assault and there was the use of the equivalent of a weapon – your teeth.
"This has had an ongoing effect on the victim and it was gratuitous degradation of him.
"This is not the most serious grievous bodily harm but it's up there."
He branded Gregory a danger to the public and jailed him for 11 years with an extended three-year licence period.
Gregory had stormed into his sister's flat in Erkenwald Road, Barking, where he began raining blows on Mr Qureshi, punching him repeatedly in the head.
As his terrified victim begged him to stop, Gregory pulled him off the sofa and headbutted him before kneeing him in the face.
Gregory then dragged Mr Qureshi outside "like a dead body" and tried to throw him down the stairs and through a window, before smashing his head against a wall.
Having sunk his teeth into Mr Qureshi's ear, he calmly walked away and spat out the piece of flesh.
Mr Qureshi said he feared for his life during the ordeal.
He added: "I could see a reflection of myself in a window and I saw him standing behind me.
"The next thing I remember is him leaning over and he ripped my ear off with his teeth.
"I was looking in the reflection and thinking 'Oh my God, he has literally just bitten my ear off'.
"Then he just casually walked off with his back to me then spat the ear out on the floor."
" couldn't believe this was happening, it was completely out of the blue, even at that point I didn't expect him to bite my ear off.
"I thought I was just going to be beaten the hell out of but he bit my ear off."
Gregory initially denied all knowledge of the attack, claiming he was at his girlfriend's house at the time of the attack, but later changed his story.
