A man had his face slashed from eye to mouth after a drunk woman attacked him with a wine glass during a pub altercation.
The victim had been drinking with friends at the Central Inn in Newquay. The night passed without trouble at first.
His group began mingling and chatting with another group, but around 11pm an argument broke out between them.
Eden Duffield, who was 21 at the time and drunk, claims she tried to break up a fight between one of her friends and a member of the other group. She broke a wine glass into a man's face and slashed him from eye to mouth with the broken glass.
The victim was left bleeding and needed 100 internal and external stitches. He now has lifelong facial scars from the attack on August 23 last year.
Duffield, from Hyns An Vownder Lane in Newquay, was arrested. She told Devon and Cornwall Police she had tried to break up a fight and did not realise she was holding a wine glass.
She was charged with one count of unlawful wounding and pleaded guilty.
In a victim impact statement read at a sentencing hearing at Truro Crown Court today, Friday August 28, the victim said he has permanent scarring on his face.
He said the incident affected his appearance, mental wellbeing and self confidence. He now has to explain what happened because people constantly look at him or ask about his scars.
"I have to live with it for the rest of my life," he said. "For days after the incident I felt embarrassed and humiliated. For two weeks afterwards I stayed in bed. It has altered my facial features."
He said he feels anxious every time he looks in the mirror because it reminds him of the assault.
In mitigation, Jason Beal, representing Duffield, who is now 22 and pregnant with a baby due in November, said she has no previous convictions. She suffered childhood trauma and was exposed to violence from a young age.
He said: "She is remorseful, ashamed and full of regrets and is determined that this sort of behaviour does not reoccur again. She had been drinking that night and has since undertaken a drink awareness course."
His Honour Judge Simon Carr said the slash wound from eye to mouth could only have happened with a broken glass from a second blow, making the incident more troubling.
Judge Carr said the injuries left on Duffield's victim's face were "truly horrific".
"You had been drinking with friends and got into a dispute with another group," he said. "That escalated and you felt your friends were under threat. But it cannot justify what you did. You struck your victim with a wine glass. You opened the side of his face from his eye to his mouth with a second blow. He has been left with scarring for life. It is visible and he has to explain it to everyone."
Judge Carr said he considered Duffield's previous good character, young age, the trauma and tragedy she suffered as a child, and her advanced pregnancy.
He said she has shown remorse and has tried to address the root causes of her offending.
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