Wrexham,North Wales - Mum who struck out at woman with bottle is jailed

Published date: 08 June 2016 | 

Published by: Staff reporter
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THE mother of a young baby who struck another woman with a bottle on Halloween has been jailed.

Jessica Prandle, 22, admitted breaching a suspended sentence imposed on her last November.

Judge Niclas Parry told her there was no option but to revoke the suspended sentence. It was her second breach and he imposed 12 months of the 16-month order.

“You are undoubtedly a troubled young woman,” he told her at Mold Crown Court yesterday.

But that had been reflected in many of the sentences passed before by the courts.

She had been given “a remarkable chance” in November when she received a suspended sentence for a wounding involving a weapon.

It was clear the community-based penalty was sadly unworkable despite the best efforts of the probation service to help her.

Barrister Matthew Curtis, prosecuting, said the probation service now felt the order was unworkable.

Barrister Andrew Green, defending, said it was clear her young life had become so chaotic and unstable in the recent past that she had been unable to engage with the order.

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She was homeless, suffered from a range of mental health problems and was unable to engage in ordinary day-to-day living.

It was a sad state of affairs but she intended to use a period in Styal Prison in Cheshire to stabilise her medication.

She would use custody as an environment of stability and calm and as an opportunity for things to settle.

l LAST November Prandle was told the fact that her victim had said she should be given a chance because she had such a young baby had influenced the court.

Prandle, then of Coed Aben, Caia Park, Wrexham, admitted wounding and at that stage received a 16 month prison sentence, suspended for two years.

She was placed on 60 days rehabilitation and a daily curfew for two months at her mother’s home.

Judge Niclas Parry made a five-year restraining order not to approach the victim in any way and warned if she breached her order then she would go into custody.

The judge said he had seen “a shocking picture of a gaping wound” above the eye of the victim who would be scarred for life.

“You did that with a bottle because you lost your temper,” he said.

At the time she was on a supervision order and just out of a suspended prison sentence for robbery.

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