Antonia Hughes, previously of Maes Hyfryd in the town, was told she could have caused 'catastrophic' damage to her victim's eye
A student who pushed a broken glass into another woman’s face in an “explosion of anger” avoided jail today.
Antonia Hughes, 23, previously of Maes Hyfryd, Holyhead, but now of Westfield Road, Leeds, had pleaded guilty to affray and assaulting Amy Leigh Newman in an Anglesey pub on Boxing Day.
Prosecutor Ffion Tomos told Caernarfon Crown Court that Miss Newman had visited the Stanley Arms in Holyhead with friends, before going to The George pub at about 11pm.
Miss Newman recognised the defendant following a “run-in” they had had a few months earlier in a Bangor nightclub, after which the defendant had placed an “extremely upsetting” message on Facebook claiming Miss Newman’s boyfriend had cheated on her.
Ms Tomos said the defendant was at The George with a friend called Kerry, who Miss Newman recognised from college.
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She said: “Miss Newman went to say hello to Kerry and, as she did, the defendant gave her a dirty look, to which Miss Newman asked her about the Facebook message.
“The defendant responded by simply saying: ‘Don’t ruin my Boxing Day, just come round my house tomorrow at 3.30pm.’”
The court heard Miss Newman then saw the defendant walking towards her, carrying a glass in her right hand.
Ms Tomos said that, “without any warning or provocation”, the defendant smashed the glass on a window ledge, pushed her way through a number of people and, with the base of the smashed glass still in her hand, swung it towards Miss Newman’s face, making contact and “showering her with glass”.
She said: “The base of the glass struck her above her right eye, breaking the skin.”
Pieces of glass struck her arms and neck, causing small cuts and puncture wounds, and she was covered in blood.
Ms Tomos said Hughes then pushed Miss Newman to her chest.
The attack was captured on CCTV and Hughes was restrained and escorted from the pub.
Ms Tomos said Miss Newman was left in pain and worried she had swallowed some glass.
She was taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd but has not suffered any long-term effects.
Gareth Roberts, defending, said Hughes was “thoroughly ashamed” of her “explosion of anger”.
Asking for a suspended sentence, he said Hughes suffered from anxiety, her violence was “out of character” and there was “no excuse” for the attack.
The court heard Hughes is a first-year business management student at Leeds University and has recently become pregnant.
Sentencing Hughes to nine months suspended for two years, Judge Gaynor Lloyd said it was “appalling, violent behaviour” and an “explosion of temper”.
She said the attack could have caused “catastrophic” damage to Miss Newman’s eye, and said Hughes’ grudge towards the victim was “a two-way street”.
The judge also ordered Hughes to carry out a 25-day learning skills course and 100 days of unpaid work, and to restrain form contacting Miss Newman.
Hughes was also ordered to pay £350 in costs and surcharge.
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