Mum smashed pint glass over her ex's head in heated row at town centre pub - then said: "I didn't mean to do that"

A mum smashed a pint glass over her ex-boyfriend's head during a heated argument in a town centre pub.

Linda Lee Gresley-Jones, 48, threw her drink on her former partner, Lee Fairhurst, and hit him with the glass amid a row at the Lower Angel pub in Warrington. The attack came after Fairhurst had hurled his own drink over Gresley-Jones and a puppy she had picked up for a friend.

As Fairhurst turned to leave, Gresley-Jones shattered her pint glass on the back of his head, leaving him with a three-inch cut. One pub customer, who witnessed the attack, said the mum-of-seven then "appeared to panic" and said: "I didn't mean to do that".

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At Liverpool Crown Court yesterday (Monday), Gresley-Jones pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm, the Liverpool ECHO reports. The court heard that Gresley-Jones, who has 28 previous convictions for 69 offences, was on police bail at the time of the incident after attacking a 14-year-old girl who she believed had been bullying her daughter - an offence for which she was later handed a suspended sentence.

Graham Roberts, defending, described the incident on July 15 of last year as "a spontaneous act following a quite provocative act by Lee Fairhurst". He said: "She has admitted what she recognises is a very serious offence. She knows what she did was wrong and she is properly and profoundly and genuinely ashamed of acting in that way."

"She's a woman who has spent her life confronting various problems and challenges, and is now making a very enthusiastic attempt to rehabilitate herself. She grew up angry at what happened to her and this manifested itself in problems with anger management. She grew up in a culture where dishonesty was rife as people looked after themselves.

"She was self medicating with alcohol. It has caused her to have problems with her health. She has lost her children to care and it's contributed to her committing offences."

He said Gresley-Jones had gone through alcohol detox with the Pathways To Recovery addiction rehabilitation centre in Warrington, and that she had recently received a job offer for secretarial work.

The judge, Ms Recorder T.V. Griffiths, said she was "sceptical" about Gresley-Jones' promise of finding work as "she had never worked before in her life", however the claims were backed up by her future employer.

Ms Griffiths said: "It's said you had difficulties in your upbringing which led to a chaotic lifestyle. It seems all seven children have been taken from you. You have anger issues and are impulsive. I have no doubt this offence was committed impulsively during an argument with your ex-partner in which he was acting provocatively."

She sentenced Gresley-Jones, of Ullswater Avenue in Warrington, to nine months in prison, suspended for two years. This will run alongside her existing suspended sentence for assaulting the 14-year-old.

Encouraging Gresley-Jones not to let down her future employer, she said: "It's a good chance. Take it. You won't get another one."