Drunk young mum glassed best friend at busy club, leaving her needing 41 stitches, after a row about a dog
A young mother glassed her former best friend in a drunken row at a busy bar over the sale of a dog, leaving her needing 41 stitches.
Ebony Jones, 26, shattered a half-pint glass across the face of support worker Megan Smith - causing her to need 36 stitches to her face and five more to her nose as well as treatment from a maxillofacial surgeon.
A court heard mother-of-two Jones approached Megan as she was stood at the bar and began to argue with her over the sale of a dog.
Prosecutor Byron Broadstock said Megan - also a mother of two - asked Jones to leave her alone but the 'drunk' defendant flew into a rage and wielded the glass towards her.
The bust-up inside the Emporium Snooker Club in Bargoed, near Caerphilly in South Wales, saw Jones delivering furious blows towards her victim and the two were separated by others.
Mr Broadstock said: 'Previously they had been good friends but recently their relationship had taken a turn for the worse over a completely unrelated matter.'
He added that the two women had been arguing over the sale of a dog involving Megan's ex-husband.
'Miss Smith told the defendant to "leave me alone" and "get away from me" - she wouldn't,' he said.
Ebony Jones, 26, (pictured) shattered the half-pint glass across the face of support worker Megan Smith
Ms Smith (pictured here with a scar from the attack) needed 36 stitches to her face and five more to her nose
Jones, of Caerphilly, admitted wounding with intent on the day she was due stand trial
'The next thing she recalls is the defendant's right arm come towards her with a half-pint glass in it. That struck her to the face connecting with her left eye.'
Mr Broadstock said Megan's memory after being struck was 'a bit of a blur' but she could recall Jones continuing to hit her.
'Footage shows at least four strikes to the face. Ms Smith remembers the feeling of glass smashing.
'When the glass hit her face it made a shattering sound.'
In a victim impact statement Megan said the attack had left her with permanent scarring and she was now known as 'Megan Scar' around her hometown.
She said: 'Following the assault my life has not been the same.
'Ebony and I had been friends for years and had a very close relationship and treated each others' families as our own - I can't believe she assaulted me this badly.
'Ebony has betrayed me in the worst possible way - she has ruined my life. I just can't believe she assaulted me. She was my best friend.'
Ms Smith pictured before the attack (left) and pictured after with a scar on her face
Jones has been jailed for 30 months and handed a ten-year restraining order
Newport Crown Court heard she was a 'shell of [her] former self' and the psychological impact of the attack had damaged her relationships with her boyfriend, parents and friends.
Aspiring nursery worker Jones, of Caerphilly, admitted wounding with intent on the day she was due stand trial.
Emma Harris, defending, said Jones suffered from mental health problems and was the sole carer for her two young children.
Jones sobbed in the dock as Judge Hywel James jailed her for 30 months and handed a restraining order banning contact with the victim for ten years.
He told her: 'Custody is required when in a public place an individual uses a glass to strike someone in the face, not once, but up to four times.
'Such a sentence is in part a deterrent against such behaviour in public places.'
