Serious attack was ‘wholly unjustified’

JUDGE Beverley Lunt said Stacey Dempsey’s attack on Michael Roberts was ‘wholly unprovoked and wholly unjustified’.

Sentencing, she said: “It’s bad enough that you got into a drunken fight with a group of other women but when Mr Roberts intervened to stop it all happening you quite deliberately bit him on the finger. It was a hard bite. It broke the skin and later on caused an infection.

“That would shock most people into realising that they’ve had too much to drink and perhaps staying indoors, but not you.

“Some time later Mr Roberts came out and you deliberately hit him on the front of the head with a bottle.

“You have caused him serious and long-lasting injuries. He is certainly not going to be able to forget this incident and will show the effects of it for years.

“I’ve seen references from friends and family and they speak well of you. But they didn’t see you that night behaving in such a violent way.

“Many people drink too much on top of medication, but they don’t all turn violent and they don’t all hurt other people. You did. This was not a one-off. It was two separate incidents and two separate times.”