Sarah Brown has been spared jail for her attack on a man who turned his back on her at a bar (Picture: Wales News Service)

An estate agent has been spared jail after he turned her down when they met at a bar.

Sarah Brown, 27, hit her victim twice when he turned his back on her in what was described as a ‘vicious and unprovoked’ attack.

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A court heard that she had been drinking wine when she spotted the 20-year-old man at the bar in the Rock and Fountain pub in Skewen, South Wales.

She pulled on his jumper to get his attention and he looked at her before turning back to continue talking to his friend.


That’s when he felt two blows to the head then wine and blood trickling down his back.

She admitted she had problems with alcohol and anger management (Picture: Wales News Service)

Prosecutor Ashanti-Jade Walton said he was left with a v-shaped wound to the side of his head that needed stitches.



In his victim impact statement, the man said he was ‘always looking over my shoulder’ and had difficulty sleeping because of flashbacks from the incident.

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However, Brown, an estate agent, was spared jail after saying she had anger management problems and issues with alcohol.

Defending her, John Hipkin said: ‘She has no explanation for what happened other than the alcohol.

‘She recognises she has issues with alcohol and anger management that now need to be addressed.’

Brown, of Neath, South Wales, admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm and possessing an offensive weapon.

Judge Paul Thomas QC told her: ‘You caused your victim a very unpleasant injury. This was a vicious, unprovoked glassing of a stranger in a pub.

‘To hit anyone with a glass is a serious offence because of the damage it can do, and always crosses the custody threshold.’

She was given a 12-month prison sentence suspended for a year, told to do 240 hours of community service and ordered to take courses in anger management and alcohol.

Judge Thomas said that if she had glassed the man in the face then she would have been jailed.

She was also told to pay her victim £2,000.