Melissa Williams, 21, of Chapel Terrace, Ponciau, was given a 12-month prison stretch after breaching the conditions of her suspended sentence
A young woman who hurled a glass at her best friend in a pub has been jailed for 12 months.
Melissa Williams, 21, had been given a suspended sentence in October, but Mold Crown Court was told today that she had failed to take her chance.
She had not attended probation appointments and her electronic tag had been taken off her leg.
Her claim that a friend had removed it after she passed out while drunk was rejected by Judge Rhys Rowlands.
Judge Rowlands said that, following her suspended sentence, she had been asked to leave her mother’s home after misbehaving and had “disappeared off the radar” as far as the probation service was concerned.
While on a suspended sentence, she had ignored the requirements and lived her own life for some six months, the court heard.
“That is not going to be tolerated,” said the judge, who imposed the 12-month suspended sentence in full.
Williams, of Chapel Terrace at Ponciau near Wrexham , admitted a wounding charge at the earlier hearing.
Prosecuting barrister Simon Rogers said the defendant and a woman described as her best friend were in The Last Orders pub in Abbot Street in April.
Police were called to a report of a woman being glassed and needing an ambulance.
Williams, who did have a serious drink problem, was being restrained and, as she was ejected from the pub, she shouted “I will kill her” and “I hate her”.
CCTV footage showed the complainant sitting down when the defendant approached and threw the contents of a glass at her, before throwing the glass itself towards her face.
It shattered and the complainant was seen to stand up holding her face.
She had a number of cuts to the face, including a deep laceration to the nose, and was treated at Wrexham Maelor.
A warrant had been issued for the defendant’s arrest after she breached the suspended sentence she received last October.
Henry Hills, defending, said she had left her mother’s home and gone to live with a friend.
It was her case that a friend removed her curfew tag from her leg while she was drunk, but the judge said that was “nonsense which I completely disbelieve”.
She had done “absolutely nothing” under the suspended sentence apart from attending the first appointment with the probation service, he said.
Following the sentence, Detective Chief Inspector Neil Harrison of North Wales Police said: “This was an unprovoked attack on the victim which left her with serious life-changing facial injuries.
“At the time of the attack, Williams had conditions not to be in Wrexham town centre drinking, restrictions that were clearly ignored.
“Throughout, Williams stated that she was unable to recall what had taken place due to her intoxicated state, and the sentence given today should serve as a warning to others of the consequences of drinking alcohol to excess.”
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