A pensioner smashed a glass into her niece's face after a long-running family dispute erupted into violence, a court has heard. Victoria Sutton and her niece had separately watched a Six Nations rugby game in a Llanelli pub before the assault took place.
After the game Sutton and her victim stepped outside to talk but an argument broke out which resulted in the 71-year-old defendant hitting her niece in the face with the glass she was holding. The victim was left with a scar on her eyelid and suffering with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Sutton had previously been convicted at trial of inflicting grievous bodily harm when she returned to the dock of Swansea Crown Court for sentencing. During the trial the defendant claimed that the facial wound had been caused accidentally when somebody had physically intervened in her argument with her niece causing the glass she was holding to fly out of her hand.
