Sentenced: Hairdresser glassed girl in the face in Ludlow pub row

Charlotte Bennett smashed the glass into the face of Carrie Adshead because she wrongly thought Miss Adshead, also a hair stylist, had kicked out at her twin sister.

The siblings had gone out drinking after finding out their grandmother had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and admitted to hospital the same day.

Shrewsbury Crown Court heard Bennett, 19, lashed out with a vodka glass at the Blue Boar pub in Ludlow, chipping Miss Adshead's two front teeth and cutting her mouth.

Miss Adshead, also 19, and from Ludlow, also suffered a cut to the back of her head.

Bennett, of Nash, near Ludlow, admitted a charge of wounding at a previous court hearing and appeared at Shrewsbury Crown Court to be sentenced.

Mr Daniel White, for Bennett, said: "On the night of this offence she had gone with her sister, they were in drink. That is not a mitigating factor, neither does it minimise the seriousness of this offence.

"On that morning their grandmother was admitted to hospital suffering from pancreatic cancer.

"That was why she was out with her sister, and that is why she had consumed alcohol."

Mr White said his client had pleaded guilty on the basis she did not know it was a glass she had picked up and swung until it was too late.

She had intended to pick up a water bottle, Mr White told the court.

"She is utterly ashamed and utterly remorseful about what she did," he added.

"She bitterly regrets it - she apologised that night when she saw Miss Adshead bleeding."

Bennett was sentenced to eight months in prison for attack on November 11 last year – but Recorder Nigel Daly opted to suspend the prison term for a period of 12 months.

It means if she stays out of trouble for the next year, she will escape punishment for the assault.

As part of the sentence, Bennett must attend meetings with probation officers over the next 12 months, complete 150 hours of unpaid work, pay Miss Adshead £1,000 compensation as well as £400 court costs.