A bail hearing for a man accused of aggravated assault in Moncton was delayed for a second day in a row.

Abdalah Abu Zeid, 21, made an appearance by video conference.

Zeid was arrested on Friday, Dec. 4 and charged with aggravated assault against Jacques Vautour over the weekend.

Vautour, a Moncton bartender, was found badly beaten in the downtown on Nov. 8.

Zeid made a court appearance Tuesday, also by video conference, but Provincial court Judge Brigitte Volpé adjourned the bail hearing until Wednesday to allow for an interpreter to be provided for Zeid.

On Wednesday, the court was told an Arabic translator still hasn't been found.

Defence lawyer Guillaume LeBlanc then asked to have his client released, saying he was being "wrongly detained" because he has the right to a timely bail hearing.

Judge Yvette Finn told the court that an endorsement dated Dec 5, showed that Zeid requested Arabic/English as his language of choice.

"If he wants translation in Arabic, obviously he has to give the court time to find a translator." said the judge.

The judge denied the request to release Zeid and told the court an adjournment was for the benefit of the accused, because he wants translation.

A bail hearing has been set for Monday, Dec. 14.

Jacques Vautour, 42, was found on the sidewalk early Nov. 8, about a block away from the Cosmo Dance Nightclub and Navigators Pub off Robinson Court, where he had worked that night as a bartender.

He was so badly injured that the man who found him didn't recognize Vautour, even though they have known one another for 25 years.

Gary Vautour said earlier that his brother Jacques had intervened earlier in the night when staff at the bar entrance stopped some people from entering, and a scuffle broke out.

He said his brother spent days in hospital recovering from a broken nose, broken cheek bone, swollen eyes and other facial injuries.