Katie Williams was 17 at the time she hit Helen Davies, 45, over the head repeatedly
A girl who was 17 when she launched what a judge described as a “savage” unprovoked attack with a metal bar on a woman neighbour was locked up for four years.
Katie Williams, now 18, of Wash Lane, Bury, had been found guilty after a trial of wounding Helen Davies, 45, with intent and possessing an offensive weapon.
Judge Philip Harris-Jenkins said at Caernarfon crown court that she had hit her neighbour to the head with the bar in a public lane. Then, as the victim ran to her own home, Williams and someone else had put her to the ground and she was struck again with the bar outside her front door at New Broughton, Wrexham.
The first attack was in the presence of a child.
The judge told Williams, who denied the charges :”The injuries have left physical reminders but also emotional scarring, because of the issues of neighbourhood fallings out between your family and her of which this was a culmination.
“You should think long and hard about her plea for you to understand and accept what you did. It’s evident from the pre-sentence report you show no responsibility for your actions and no remorse for what the jury found you did. This was a nasty, savage attack on a middle-aged woman who didn’t provoke the incident in the slightest.
“The fact you followed her to her home shows the callous way you acted on this day. However, it’s obvious you lack maturity when it comes to thought and reason and I don’t doubt the seeds of that lie very much with your poor upbringing.”
There were “good aspects” to her, too, he added.
An indefinite restraining order was imposed, banning contact with the victim who is a mum.
Prosecutor David Mainstone said there had been “bad feeling” between the neighbours for a number of years. The injured woman had a scarred forehead following the assault.
“Every day this scar on her face is a reminder to her and her children about what happened,” the prosecutor remarked. Her life had been “affected hugely.”
Defence counsel James Coutts said Williams was “vulnerable” and had tried to mask this. But she had found work and looked after herself in a different area.
The teen had spent two months in custody. “She’s found the experience challenging,” counsel added.
Det Con Jess Evans of North Wales police said afterwards :“This was a particularly vicious assault with a weapon which left the victim traumatised. I am pleased with this sentence.”
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