Renewed glass ban call after husband's club murder

Jane Sherriff's husband, Phil, died after he was stabbed in the neck with a broken glass bottle

The widow of a man who was killed with a broken bottle 12 years ago has renewed efforts to have glass banned from late night venues.

Jane Sherriff's husband Philip Sherriff, from Preston, was stabbed in the neck in a London nightclub in 2012.

Her campaign for a ban had over 100,000 supporters but failed to secure a parliamentary debate.

She has now teamed up with former rugby player Matthew Syrons, who lost his sight in a glass attack, to push for the ban again.

'Soul-destroying'

Ms Sherriff said she was assured 12 years ago that there were enough provisions in place to keep people safe.

Mr Syrons was glassed by a stranger in a Leeds nightclub on 27 December, and Ms Sherriff said his case showed those earlier assurances were wrong.

Mr Syrons is still unable to see and doctors do not know if his sight will return.

He said: "I don't want anyone to be in this situation and it was soul-destroying for me and my family.

"I just believe something needs to change."

The Sherriff family pictured before Mr Sherriff's passing

The Home Office estimates there are almost 90,000 violent incidents involving glass in the UK each year.

Ms Sherriff's husband was at a corporate event in London when he was stabbed in the neck with a broken glass bottle.

He died four days later, leaving behind Ms Sherriff and their children, who were aged five and eight at the time.

Ashley Charles, 26, from Leicester, was given a life sentence for the murder.

Ms Sherriff said her campaign gathered 110,000 signatures at the time but that it did not get debated in parliament due to it "being on paper and not online".

'Not straightforward'

Head of The Night-Time Industries Association Michael Kill said a ban on glass was not straightforward.

He said: "We have come up with lots of different technologies, from shatter glass to decanting from glass into polycarbonates, to selling cans.

"But at the moment, where the industry is facing such austerity, such challenges economically... it's something that has got to be considered, so we need to think about how that phases in."

Ms Sherriff, who has since remarried and has two more children, said the story is now about "other people that have suffered in the last 12 years and the changes that haven't been made".