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Sickening footage has captured the moment a woman smashed a wine glass in her boyfriend's face almost blinding him in one eye.

Sickening mobile phone video shows Melissa Connolly attack her now ex-partner Peter Cairns when he tried to leave her home.

A bloodied Mr Cairns can be heard repeatedly shouting for help after he was struck with the glass with a gash visible just above his eye.

Preston Crown Court heard doctors told Mr Cairns he was lucky not to lose it.

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Connolly admitted causing wounding without intent at court on Friday and will return next month for sentencing.

The court heard the 43-year-old attacked Mr Cairns as he tried to leave her home in Barrow, Cumbria, on October 20 last year.

As he tried to escape Connolly smashed a wine glass in his face with such force the sound of the glass breaking drowned out his shouts.

After managing to get out of the house, Mr Cairns can be seen in the footage, clearly in shock as he calls out for help, before finding his way inside Shengs, a nearby takeaway.

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Horrified staff offer help to Mr Cairns who refused to go inside to prevent blood dripping onto the floor.

Police and paramedics were then called and Mr Cairns was treated for a serious wound on his head just millimetres above his eye.

Doctors told him he was lucky not to have lost it.

Connolly pleaded guilty to causing malicious wounding to Peter Cairns.

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She was originally been charged with malicious wounding with intent, the most serious form of assault a person can commit.

Connolly denied this but admitted a lesser offence of grievous bodily harm or wounding without intent which was accepted by the prosecutor on Friday.

She will return to Preston Crown Court on February 2 to be sentenced.

Bail conditions prevent Connolly from contacting the victim, Peter Cairns, or witness Charles Hunter.dail