Man faces prison for biting off nose
PETER SMALL
STAFF REPORTER
A man has been found guilty of biting off his girlfriend’s nose in a jealous rage, then virtually torturing her for hours.
A Superior Court of Ontario jury yesterday found Angel Jones, 27, guilty of aggravated assault, sex assault and uttering death threats in the Feb. 17, 2002 attack in the 26-year-old woman’s Birchmount Rd. apartment.
The long-lasting assault was “tantamount to torture,” prosecutor Paul Amenta had told the jury in his closing arguments.
On the night of the crime, the pair had had consensual sex in her home, but suddenly “a different person seemed to rear his head,” Amenta said.
Jones accused the woman of infidelity, put her in a headlock, bit off her nose, spitting it on to the floor, according to evidence.
She was “disfigured horribly,” Amenta said.
Police found her nose on the floor, but doctors were unable to reattach it. She has since had reconstructive surgery.
Dressed in a black jacket with dice on the back, Jones told Mr. Justice Norman Dyson yesterday he would be appealing the conviction and said he wanted transcripts of the trial.
The jury took less than 90 minutes to deliberate. It rejected Jones’ arguments, which he made himself after firing his lawyer mid-trial, that biting off her nose was accidental.
He argued that her nose was in his mouth but only came off because the weight loss medicine she was using made her skin fragile, the judge said in summarizing Jones’ position.
Nor did jurors buy his explanation that the victim had made up the story of the attack out of a desire for revenge.
They didn’t hear that he had seven previous convictions for assault, including four while he was incarcerated awaiting this trial.
He also has had drug possession, trafficking and prohibited weapons convictions.
The day he attacked the victim, he had just been released from prison.
“It’s the right result,” said Amenta, who told reporters he would be seeking the maximum sentence, which for aggravated assault is 14 years.
Jones appears in court June 21 to begin the sentencing process.
I hope this guy gets group sodomized with various large objects.