A YOUNG mother who glassed another woman in the street has been jailed.

Samantha Kirsty Caroline Rayner caused a three-centimetre gash in the victim’s forehead when she lashed out outside The Society pub in the early hours of January 27 last year, said Katy Rafter, prosecuting.

The two had been involved in an altercation shortly before inside the pub and the victim had come up to her outside.

Rayner, 21, of Stuart Road, Acomb, admitted causing actual bodily harm. She has 38 previous convictions, including some for violence and was on a suspended prison sentence for affray at the time.

Recorder Sandeep Kainth told her: “Using a weapon to cause injury warrants a custodial sentence” as he jailed her for six months.

Her barrister Glenn Parsons pleaded for the sentence to be suspended on the grounds that she had a young baby as well as an older child to care for and had had to wait nearly two years to learn her fate.

But the judge said that a probation officer had assessed her of being highly likely to reoffend and her personal circumstances didn’t justify him suspending the sentence.

York Crown Court heard that Rayner originally denied the charge, but changed her plea on the day she was due to stand trial.

Ms Rafter said the victim’s brother fell on the floor and she thought that the defendant was laughing at him. The two women were separated by door staff and thrown out separately, with Rayner going first.

As she did so, CCTV filmed her picking up a glass, emptying it and taking it outside. When she came out, the victim, who had been drinking, went quickly across to her and was sent staggering backwards when Rayner hit her.

Mr Parsons said Rayner feared she was going to be attacked, so lashed out in self-defence. She had acted instinctively and had not been involved in the incident in which the boyfriend’s victim ended up on the floor.