A 19-year-old hairdresser struck another hairstylist in the face with a glass during a drunken row at a Ludlow town centre pub, a court heard.

Carrie Adshead, also 19, was left covered in blood after the attack by Charlotte Bennett and needed treatment for two chipped front teeth, cuts to her nose and face and to the back of her head.

Bennett had lashed out with a vodka glass because she wrongly believed the victim had kicked out at her twin sister at the Blue Boar pub in November last year.

At Shrewsbury Crown Court last week Recorder Nigel Daly told Bennett that he accepted she had not deliberately struck the victim with the glass.

“But by behaving in this reckless manner you did cause some injuries. Using a glass as a weapon can cause really nasty injuries, particularly to a young woman. It is not pretty and it stays with them for the rest of their lives," he said.

Bennett was sentenced to eight months at a Young Offenders' Institution which was suspended for a year.

She was also ordered to complete 150 hours unpaid work and must pay Miss Adshead £1,000 compensation and £400 towards court costs. At an earlier hearing Bennett, of Nash, near Ludlow, had admitted a charge of wounding Miss Adshead on November 11 last year.

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Miss Adshead was left with damaged teeth and cuts to her head. She's since told how she still has to drink using a straw

The court heard that Bennett and her sister had gone out drinking after finding out their grandmother had been diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Mr Daniel White, for Bennett, said that her client had been drinking, but it did not minimise the seriousness of the offence.

He said Bennett had pleaded guilty on the basis that she did not know it was a glass she had picked up and swung, until it was too late. She had intended to pick up a water bottle.

“She is utterly ashamed and utterly remorseful about what she did. She bitterly regrets it and she apologised that night when she saw Miss Adshead was bleeding,” he said.

After the hearing Miss Adshead said that a year on she still had to drink through a straw as her teeth were so sensitive.

She said that, while there was no great injury to her face, she had been left with two chipped front teeth which she felt was worse.

“They will never heal. My teeth were perfectly straight and white, and I’m still undergoing cosmetic dentistry to fix this," she said.

Miss Adshead said she was also left with sensitive scarring to the inside of her lip, a small chunk out of the bridge of her nose and a scar to the back of the head.