Nine years for horrific attack at crowded market

A violent repeat offender who slashed a man’s head with a jagged bottle at a crowded market has been jailed for nine years. Tristan Bennett, 30, attacked Edward Long at Tooting Market on 12 May last year leaving him with permanent scarring. The market, described by a witness as ‘one of the joys of London’, was crowded with people enjoying themselves on a busy Sunday. But chaos ensued when Bennett, who has a long history of violent offending, including a…