Two women beat up a customer outside Neath town centre shop in a row over money, a court has heard.
Stacey Barnett and Victoria Mutu attacked the woman after coming across her in a Spar store, with Mutu hitting the victim about the head with a glass bottle. A judge described the town centre incident as an "ugly brawl" which saw the defendants "lose any sense of dignity".
David Singh, prosecuting, told Swansea Crown Court the incident took place outside the Spar shop on Neath 's Windsor Road on the morning of March 10 this year. He said the defendants encountered their victim in the store where an argument involving the trio began, and then once outside the disagreement turned to violence. Barnett grabbed and punched the woman, and Mutu joined in the assault by striking their victim a number of times to the head with the bottle she was holding. The court heard the bottle did not smash.
