A WOMAN who "glassed" another woman in the toilets of a York nightclub was jailed for nine months.

Rebecca Fawcett believed that Kathryn Standing had had an affair with her ex-husband several months before she pushed a champagne glass into her chest, York Crown Court heard.

Ms Standing denies any affair and the Honorary Recorder of York, Judge Paul Hoffman, said the main reason for the glassing was Fawcett's drunkenness. She may also have been depressed.

"This was a deliberate glassing of another woman who was vulnerable at the time because she was using the toilet," he said. "There was no immediate provocation."

Fawcett, 23, of Moss Street, South Bank, pleaded guilty to wounding.

Prosecutor Nicholas Ralph said Fawcett was in the toilets at Tofts Nightclub when Ms Standing came in and went into a cubicle. After overhearing a conversation, Fawcett burst into the cubicle and glassed Ms Standing in the chest.

Fawcett's barrister, Simon Kealey, said "This was a crime of passion".

She believed the affair had taken place in May 2003. The attack occurred in March 2004.

He said Fawcett had drunk a lot on the evening of the attack and was under high emotion at the time. She said she had been raped two weeks earlier after leaving a nightclub late at night, but had not reported the incident as she had been too shocked. She had also suffered from post-natal depression.

Updated: 10:51 Thursday, May 13, 2004