A woman lost the sight in one eye when a group of youths went on the rampage in Mold .
Victim Karen Hodgkinson was struck in the face by a full beer can hurled by one of the group, who congregated outside her home in Elm Drive.
She suffered a fractured eye socket and lost the sight in that eye following violence of “startling proportions” on October 31, Mold Crown Court was told.
A 17-year-old youth denied wounding her with intent to cause her grievous bodily harm but his guilty plea to a straight wounding charge was accepted by the prosecution.
He and six others admitted violent disorder following disturbances in the Elm Drive area and the McDonald’s Restaurant area of Mold that night.
The youth together with another aged 17; Christian Gentile, 18, of Parc Alun in Mold; a boy aged 13; a boy aged 16; Samuel Dodd, 18, of Milford Street in Mold and Sam Rogers, 19, of Chester Road, Mold have all been bailed pending sentencing in June.
Judge Geraint Walters warned them that the custody threshold had been passed and that they should not read anything into the fact that they were being bailed for reports.
The case has not been publicly opened but prosecutor David Mainstone told the plea hearing that the complainant and her family had suffered a great deal of trouble from youths congregating outside their home.
The injury that had been inflicted was extremely serious and had been caused by the throwing of a can of beer.
He said that the victim had been left with blindness in one eye.
The prosecution would be asking for a restraining order at the next hearing, he explained.
Judge Walters said that it appeared that because the victim and her family had told police about the trouble they had to put up with, “groups of yobbos” had been turning up and causing their lives to be a misery.
The public disorder that night was of “startling proportions “, he said.
The sentencing judge would need to consider all sentencing options.
It clearly crossed the custody threshold, he said.
All defendants were rebailed pending sentence on condition that they do not associate with each other, do not contact named prosecution witnesses and do not enter Elm Drive.
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