Victim refused to serve drunken yob
BY CHRIS TAYLOR reporters@dailyrecord.co.uk A MOTHER of two who glassed a barmaid in the face has been jailed for 14 months.
Paula Mitchell, 31, attacked Tracy Grady, 45, after she was refused service at the Anchor Bar in Paisley for being too drunk.
When police arrived and arrested the yob, she lashed out and kicked PC Kieran Foster in the groin.
Jailing Mitchell, Sheriff Frances McCartney told her: “This is a very serious crime and has had a profound impact on your victim.
“The law is clear – assault with a glass attracts a custodial sentence in all but the most extreme of circumstances.”
Tracy told the trial at Paisley Sheriff Court she lost five teeth after Mitchell “drove” a pint glass into her mouth.
She said: “My lips were cut – top and bottom. The bones were all broken in my gums because of the force of the glass.”
The victim had emergency treatment at Glasgow Dental Hospital, followed by near-weekly visits to her own dentist for another nine months.
Tracy said the attack on November 4, 2017, “affected me in all sorts of ways”.
She explained: “I’m a paranoid wreck when I’m out in public.
“It has affected me financially because I’ve not been able to go back to work. I get too anxious when I’m in the pub, never mind to have to go to work in one.”
Mitchell denied attacking the barmaid but the jury found her guilty of assault.
Gordon Ritchie, defending, asked for his client to be spared a jail term and be sentenced to community service instead.
He said: “If she was sent to custody, it would be a punishment for her. But it would be a great punishment to her children.
“They are and should be considered innocent victims. They have done no wrong.”
He added his client had moved to County Durham to escape “various negative peer pressures”.
Mitchell kicked off as she was led away to start her sentence on Monday.
She shouted to friends in the public gallery: “Look after my lassies.”