A judge has condemned the binge-drinking culture among women after single mother Hannah Slate battered her neighbour after drinking 15 cans of Stella Artois

A judge has condemned the binge-drinking culture among women after jailing a single mother who battered her neighbour while drunk on 15 cans of Stella Artois.

Judge Martin Rudland said he was seeing an increasing number of women coming before the courts for violent offences which had been carried out while they were drunk.

The senior judge made the comments today as he jailed 21-year-old Hannah Slate for repeatedly smashing a coffee mug over her victim's head in a horrific attack which left his skull exposed.

Warning there was 'no alternative' but to jail the mother-of-one, he said Slate was the latest in a line of women who had been jailed after 'drinking too excess'.

He said: 'You are just one of the young women we are seeing who have been brought here on an offence of violence - particularly young women drinking to excess.

'The court is left with no alternative.'

The judge added that the attack had taken place in 'unpleasant and vicious circumstances' when the defendant was 'heavily intoxicated'.

Slate has previous convictions for common assault, violent disorder and assaulting police officers, all of which were committed while drunk.

'You were hostile and used a seemingly harmless object as a weapon and hit with significant force,' he said. 'You were described as being wild with rage.

'This was a vicious attack that was premeditated in the moment of the assault and that cannot be overlooked.'

As she was led to the cells, Slate called out to her mother in the public gallery saying: 'S***, I love you! Look after that baby for me!'

Manchester Crown Court heard how Slate launched the attack in June this year when she was stopped from taking beer from Heskers's house party in Harphurhey, Manchester.

The court heard how she shouted 'come on, do you f****** want some?' before pinning down Mr Heskers on a sofa and launching the attack.

The court heard how the victim Steven Heskers felt unable to retaliate because his attacker was a woman.

Slate, 21, repeatedly smashed a coffee mug over her victim's head in a horrific attack which left his skull exposed. The attack took place after she tried to steal beer from his house party

Slate's lawyer said his client had been drinking the 'wife-beater' lager all day and had consumed more than a dozen cans.

She and her friend then turned up at Mr Heskers's house where she became 'argumentative' and attempted to steal more alcohol.

Prosecutor Lisa Boocock said she fled when a man tried to stop her but that she returned later, banging angrily on the door.

She told the court: 'Mr Heskers was on the settee and describes this defendant as "screaming like a psycho".

Judge Martin Rudland (pictured) said he was seeing an increasing number of women coming before the courts for violent drunken offences

'She jumped onto the settee and straddled him and hit him over the head with a mug which smashed.

'He was hit on the right side of the forehead. There was a cut which immediately started to bleed. Mr Heskers was quite dazed.'

She said the incident had been an unprovoked and frightening attack.

'Mr Heskers himself said that he felt scared and he didn't feel like he could retaliate because she was a woman and he had no idea why he was attacked,' Ms Boocock told the court.

'He did attend hospital, and had a deep laceration to his head. The cut was so deep that you could see his skull through it. '

Her lawyer Paul Darnbrough said the attack had taken place because his client was drunk.

'She had drunk 15 cans of Stella Artois giving result of anti social behaviour,' he told the court.

'There is a history of alcohol misuse and a history or resorting to alcohol and when drinking alcohol the drink goes in and sense goes out.

'It is quite clear there is a propensity to seek recourse to alcohol and that recourse causes the behaviour of this young 21-year-old woman.'

He added that Slate was a long-suffering victim of domestic violence and that she had had a 'chaotic upbringing'.

'She has had no previous animosity with the complainant. She has been wracked with remorse,' he added.

'Stella is known to be called "wife beater" but in this instance it was "Heskers's beater".'

As well as being jailed, Slate was also ordered to pay a £120 victim surcharge.

Her mother and father sobbed and shouted to their daughter that they loved her and they would look after the child.

Last month a global survey which looked at the drinking habits of four million people over a period of over a century said women had caught up with men in the amount of alcohol they drink.