Attack: Neah Tuohy, 24, of Chigwell, Essex, was jailed for 12 years for glassing a man in the face

A hairdresser screamed ‘the system is f***ed’ as she was jailed for 12 years for glassing a man in the face as he lay unconscious in the street after a taxi rank fight.

Neah Tuohy, 24, joined a friend for drinks at a bar in Gants Hill, Essex, to celebrate St Patrick’s Day - before the pair were removed when a row broke out with Levi Miller and his girlfriend.

Tuohy wandered off clutching her drink but a huge fight began at a nearby taxi rank, during which she reached for her glass and thrust it into Mr Miller’s face twice when he was knocked out.

Mr Miller was left with permanent scars by his left eyebrow and just below his chin. Tuohy denied wounding with intent but was convicted by a Snaresbrook Crown Court jury after a trial.

She has a ‘history of violence’ and has previously been convicted of offences including common assault, using threatening behaviour and causing actual bodily harm.

Tuohy, of Chigwell, Essex, was once jailed for setting fire to her former boyfriend’s front door and in 2012 she was sent to prison for knifing a man in the buttocks at a house party.

The licence period on that sentence had barely expired before she carried out her latest offence after drinking at Sidney’s Bar and Lounge in March last year.

Sentencing her to 12 years in prison, Judge Sheelagh Canavan said: ‘For a 24-year-old woman you have what can only be described as an appalling history of violence.

Sentenced: Tuohy (pictured) joined a friend for drinks at a bar in Gants Hill, Essex, to celebrate St Patrick’s Day - before the pair were removed after an argument broke out with a man and his girlfriend

Guilty: Tuohy denied wounding with intent but was convicted by a jury at Snaresbrook Crown Court after a trial

‘From the age of 14 you have regularly throughout your lifetime lost your temper. When you lose your temper you react by being violent towards others.

‘At times that has manifested in making threats of violence towards people but on a number of occasions you have gone beyond that and you have been physically violent towards others.

It is luck more than judgement you did not blind him or indeed kill him Judge Sheelagh Canavan

‘You lose your temper - you respond violently. If you are in drink it is that much worse. It is clear to me that at this point Mr Miller was particularly vulnerable.

'He was lying unconscious on the floor. You then armed yourself, I am sure for the purpose of stabbing Mr Miller in the face, because - once again - you had lost your temper completely.

‘It is luck more than judgement you did not blind him or indeed kill him because that is how dangerous what you did to him was.’