A court was informed that a woman headbutted another clubgoer twice, causing a broken nose, and then laughed at the victim.
Katie Bromley, 41, attacked Ryleigh Parfitt at the Vibez nighclub in Newport during a busy night out. Wales.
Bromley first pushed one of Ryleigh’s friends, Millie Parry Jones, when she bumped into her.
Ryleigh and Millie decided to leave the dancefloor and go to another level but their paths crossed again with Bromley and she was pointed out to Ryleigh by Millie.
Prosecutor Sarah Iles told Cardiff Crown Court Bromley approached them and said: ‘What the f**k are you looking at?’
‘She then took hold of the victim’s head, drew back her own head and headbutted her to the face.
‘Ms Parfitt felt immediate pain.’
Ryleigh was taken to hospital, lost consciousness on the way, and was treated for her fractured nose and tender jaw.
She said in a statement read to the court: ‘This attack was completely uncalled for and it came out of the blue.
‘My confidence has been knocked massively.
‘I suffer from flashbacks and it has caused me severe anxiety.
‘I was worried that I wouldn’t look the same again.
‘I was also petrified of seeing the defendant again in the local area.’
Georgina Buckley, defending, said: ‘Her principal mitigation is her early guilty plea which was entered at the very first opportunity at the magistrates’ court.
‘She is remorseful. It was a very quick, a very short-lived assault which was spontaneous.
‘This was out of character for this defendant.
‘She accepts she was highly intoxicated.’
Judge Paul Hopkins KC told Bromley: ‘This was deplorable violence.’
Bromley pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm on June 18, 2023.
She was handed a 12-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay £500 in compensation and pay £200 costs and a £187 surcharge.
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