A woman who “bottled’ an innocent reveller on a nightclub dance floor was let off jail because she has a child.
Sophie Millard, 23, smashed the bottle of Budweiser into the face of Ryan Jones who needed stitches to an eye wound.
Single mum Millard was facing 12 months in jail for the attack which was caught on CCTV.
But a judge suspended the sentence because “it would seem like an eternity” for her four-year-old daughter.
Self-employed Millard had drunk four vodkas and coke while out with friends in Judges nightclub in Aberdare .
Prosecutor Eugene Egan said: “She was on the dance floor when she told Mr Jones to stop grinding against her, something he denied.
“The CCTV shows her wagging her finger at him before using a bottle of Budweiser to strike him to the eye.
“The bottle shattered on impact and caused a two centimetre cut which needed hospital treatment.”
Millard sobbed in the dock at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court where she admitted unlawful wounding.
The court was shown the CCTV of the bottle attack in the early hours of October 21 last year.
Rosamund Rutter, defending, said “remorseful” Millard would lose her rented home if she was sent to prison.
She said: “She is extremely apologetic - she knows only too well the physical and emotional damage because she has suffered a serious assault herself.”
Ms Rutter said Millard had arranged for her mother to move from her home in Manchester to care for her child if she was jailed.
Judge Christopher Vosper told Millard: “A bottle is always a dangerous weapon especially in a crowded nightclub where violence can flare up so easily.
“If you are sent into custody you will lose your accommodation and there would be an impact on your daughter in your absence.
“It would seem like an eternity for a child aged four - I entirely understand those concerns.
“I have come to the conclusion, with some hesitation, that you genuinely believed you had been indecently touched before striking Mr Jones.”
Millard, of Aberdare, was given a 12-month suspended prison sentence with a rehabilitation activity course. She was also put under a night time curfew between 9pm and 7am.
