Jailed: Sports therapist who bottled man at party
ASPORTS therapist has been locked up after bottling a man in the face at a birthday party.
Mum-of-one Stacey Dempsey, 27, had earlier bitten Michael Roberts after he tried to intervene when she got into a fight with up to five women at a house in Oswaldtwistle.
A court heard she pulled his hand towards her mouth and bit his finger hard causing a lot of bleeding.
A few hours later Dempsey, of Jubilee Street, followed him into the street and bottled him.
The blow caused Mr Roberts to double over in pain and he lost consciousness for 30 seconds.
Police later found Dempsey, who runs her own holistic sports therapy business, at home in bed crying.
The court heard a combination of medication and alcohol had caused her to behave the way she did.
ASPORTS therapist who bottled a man in the face during a 30th birthday party as he tried to break up a fight has been jailed.
Stacey Dempsey attended the party of a neighbour on Jubilee Street in Oswaldtwistle and ‘started being offensive to people and calling them names’, a court heard.
The mum-of-one then got into a fight involving up to five women and when Michael Roberts, who was attending the party with his partner, tried to intervene the defendant pulled his hand towards her mouth and ‘bit his finger hard’.
Prosecutor Stephen Parker said a ‘lot of blood’ was pouring from his finger and after the incident people started to leave the party and call taxis.
The court heard how a few hours later Mr Roberts, 28, went outside onto Jubi- lee Street and ‘wholly unprovoked’ was hit in the face with a bottle by Dempsey.
Mr Parker said the victim ‘bent over in pain’ and when he put his hands to his face it was ‘covered in blood’. He also lost consciousness for about 30 seconds.
When the police arrived at around 3am on August 20 last year they found Dempsey at home in bed crying.
She told officers: “I only bit his finger. I haven’t done anything wrong.”
The court heard Mr Roberts suffered a ‘massive lump on his forehead’ and ‘really nasty cuts’ to his cheek and nose.
In a victim impact statement the road worker said he had lost one-third of his wages as he was unable to work night shifts and has been left with a scar on the bridge of his nose and left cheek.
Mr Parker said the victim is now concerned that ‘people think he’s a thug’.
Dempsey, 27, of Exchange Street, Accrington, pleaded guilty to ABH and assault by beating and was jailed for 10 months.
Steven Levine, defending, said Dempsey could lose her holistic sports therapy business following her imprisonment.
He told the court that the defendant was taking med- ication at the time of the incident and it was the ‘combination with alcohol that led her to behave in the way she did’.
Mr Levine said: “To say she has learnt a salutary lesson from this experience is an understatement.
“She is remorseful. She strongly regrets her actions and apologises profusely.
“She doesn’t drink anymore.”