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A recruitment boss launched a vicious attack on two men armed with a broken wine glass 'to teach them a lesson'.

Lynn Tonks, 50, had been well-regarded by colleagues at Blue Arrow Recruitment in Bristol and was known for her charity work.

But her career now lies in tatters after she was convicted of wounding and causing actual bodily harm.

Bristol Crown Court heard how she was drunk at the New Moon pub when she decided a man who was with two friends had given her a 'dirty look'.

(Image: Avon and Somerset police)

(Image: Avon and Somerset police)

First she walked up to Simon Dove and slapped him hard in the face, a jury heard.

The men remonstrated with her but then decided to leave.

Jurors were told how Tonks was then seen to drain her glass of wine on the floor and put it in her jacket pocket.

Outside the pub, witnesses described how she held the glass as she delivered a “roundhouse” blow to the face of Ashley Williams.

(Image: Avon and Somerset police) (Image: Avon and Somerset police)

Leaving him with blood pouring from his face, and now just left with the stem of the glass, with a shard attached, she then punched Mr Dove, causing a large, arching gash, containing fragments of bone.

The blow also cracked his eye socket.

Tonks told witnesses at a bus stop: “I’m 50 years of age, I don’t need this sh**.

“You don’t know the half of it, he punched me in the pub.”

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Tonks denied the offences but was found guilty and jailed for three years, the Bristol Post reports.

Tabitha Macfarlane, defending, told the court: “It was a surreal night and she struggles to understand why she reacted in the way that she did."

Tonks was part of a team from Blue Arrow in Bristol which raised more than £1,200 for injured services personnel charity Help for Heroes via a series of fundraising events.

Jailing her, Recorder Michael Parroy QC told Tonks: “I accept you made efforts in recruitment to give assistance to those in real difficulties getting into employment and you are of hitherto good character.

“But I saw the CCTV and I heard the evidence of your behaviour on the night in question.

"It is clear on that night your behaviour was very different from that which had hitherto been seen.”

After the case, Detective Constable Haley Matthews said: “The fact Tonks was intoxicated was no excuse for the level of violence she used against her victims.

“In using a glass as a weapon, she not only inflicted significant injuries but she also left her victims with permanent scars, which they now have to live with every day.

“Offences of this nature will not be tolerated and we will always do everything in our power to bring those responsible to justice.”