A Manchester businesswoman glassed a man in the face at a pub after he incorrectly guessed her age as 43.
You would think that guessing 4 years off the right age was a decent effort, but 39-year-old Joanne Dodd was absolutely fuming about it, and let rip into pub-goer Carl Cooper.
Cooper went to the toilet to get away from the situation, but when he came out Dodd ran towards him and smashed her wine glass in his face.
Cooper was left with 10cm cut that narrowly missed his eye and needed stitches, as well as an injury to his thumb.
Manchester Crown Court heard that Dodd has been suffering from ‘low self-esteem’ (you think?) and had been drinking heavily at the time of the attack.
The mum-of-one pleaded guilty to GBH and faced up to three years in prison, but was instead given a 12-month suspended sentence, ordered to complete 180 hours of unpaid work, and pay £800 in compensation to her victim.
Judge Elizabeth Nicholls said that while there was no excuse for Dodd glassing Cooper in the face, she could see Dodd was a ‘hard working woman’, ‘loving mother’ and ‘no risk to the public’. Aside from when she glasses someone in the face for guessing her age incorrectly, I guess?
Prosecutor Emma Clark set the scene for how the incident went down exactly:
‘Carl Cooper and his friend Stuart Coleman were in the beer garden and the defendant was intoxicated.
‘Mr Cooper and his friends were having a light hearted conversation with the defendant’s sister before the conversation turned to age.
‘Mr Cooper guessed the ages of the two women – but the defendant took offence at Mr Cooper’s guess.
He said the conversation then became heated and Dodd told Mr Cooper that she would glass him.
‘He went to the toilet to get away from the situation and the defendant and her sister proceeded to the main bar area.
‘But she caught sight of Mr Cooper as he left the toilet and immediately ran towards him, striking him twice in the face with a glass causing a laceration to the face and narrowly missing his eye.
‘The defendant left the Unicorn pub shortly after the attack and was subsequently arrested at a Tesco store a short time later.’
So she got mad that he didn’t guess her age right, threatened to glass him, and then carried out her threat. You would think that’s an automatic jail sentence, but I guess being female is a mitigating circumstance when it comes to this sort of thing. £800 and no jail scarring an innocent man for life! 180 unpaid hours of work does seem brutal though, will give the judge that.
For the young lady left with gruesome injuries after a bottle of Lambrini exploded in her Tesco bag, click HERE. WTF?
