Kyle Astil and Nicola Hoppe appeared in the dock together at Swansea Crown Court
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A MOTHER and son beat up a woman outside a Swansea pub
leaving her needing 15 stitches to a gash on her cheek which went "through-and-through" to her mouth, a court has heard
Kyle Astil was aged just 16 when he punched the victim to the ground outside the Halfway public house in Trallwn — his mum, Nicola Hoppe, then kicked her in the face with her heeled shoes.
Swansea Crown Court heard that when a customer from the pub went to the aid of the woman on the floor, Astil punched her too, breaking her nose.
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The unprovoked attack happened in November 2013, but matters have only now been sentenced after a late guilty plea from the mother. Reporting restrictions which had been in place preventing the naming of Astil have been lifted.
Eighteen-year-old Astil, of Cwrt Olwyn Ddwr, Birchgrove, had previously pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding and to assault occasioning bodily harm, and Hoppe, aged 40, of Dyffryn-Aur Road, Trallwn, had previously pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm when they appeared side-by-side in the dock for sentencing.
The court heard Astil was "wound up" following an altercation with his partner on the evening of the incident, and was seen by witnesses knocking a woman to the floor at the bus stop outside the pub.
Hoppe then began kicking the woman in the face as she lay on the floor, and then started punching her.
When a friend of the victim rushed to help, Astil punched her with an "upper cut motion" to the face, leaving her "dripping with blood".
Other drinkers in the pub intervened, and Astil and Hoppe made off.
The court heard the first victim suffered a split lip and a "through-and-through" gash to her cheek which needed 15 stitches; the second suffered a broken nose and two black eyes.
Hoppe was given an 18-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months, and ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work.
Sentencing of Astil was adjourned after he said to probation officers that he might not be bothered to get out of bed in the mornings to do any community work - he was remanded into custody until Monday with judge Paul Thomas saying he wanted more time to consider what to do with him. The judge added that he could impose a non-community sentence whereby "somebody would wake you up every morning".
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