A woman posed for a selfie on the steps of court after being sentenced for glassing a builder in the eye.

Cherelle Brown, 27, uploaded the pictures to her social media with the caption: ‘Feeling the luckiest little bitch ever right now!’

Minutes earlier she had successfully persuaded a judge not to lock her up claiming she was ‘regretful and remorseful’ for throwing a bottle in Samuel Litherland’s face.

Cherelle Brown taking her selfie outside Preston Crown Court (Picture: Cavendish)

Victim Samuel Litherland in hospital after the attack (Picture: Cavendish Press)

The builder needed plastic surgery after the attack, which happened in a nightclub.


Mr Litherland was left covered in blood from a cut to his eyelid after the lager bottle hit him during a confrontation at the former Switch venue in Blackburn, Lancashire.



He suffered a 8mm laceration to the lower left eyelid but escaped being blinded in the assault.

It is thought there had been ‘bad blood’ between the pair over a relationship Brown had with one of Mr Litherland’s workmates.

At Preston Crown Court, Brown, of Blackburn, admitted unlawful wounding but said a stretch in jail would be ‘disruptive’ for her three children, one a boy and the other two girls aged four and 18 months.

The selfie Cherelle Brown took after the court case (Picture: Cavendish)

After escaping with a 18 months jail sentence suspended for two years she posted the pouting picture and said: ‘One door closes and another opens! Feeling the luckiest little bitch ever right now! Once again the kids have saved me from myself.’

The incident occurred on May 27 last year after Mr Litherland encountered Brown during a night out.

When she initially saw Mr Litherland at the nightclub, Brown threw a drink over him and had to be ushered away.

But when she returned moments later, CCTV footage captured the moment she threw a glass or bottle at his face.

The victim said in a statement: ‘I went down on one knee and my eye was full of blood. I have gone down and put my hand up to my eyes because I couldn’t really see anything. I could just see white dots before my eyes.’

He said his eye had recovered but injury caused problems at work due to dusty construction sites.

Samuel Litherland said working on dusty construction sites is now difficult for him (Picture: Cavendish)

The court heard Brown had a string of convictions for theft plus assault. She told police she had little recollection of the attack on Mr Litherland because she had been drinking

Her lawyer Mark Stuart said in mitigation: ‘She concedes that she had been drinking. She was about six feet away from Mr Litherland when she threw the bottle. It could have landed anywhere but unfortunately for Mr Litherland and unfortunately for her, it hit him in the face.

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‘She has not had the easiest of upbringings but over the last few years sought to fix her behaviour and she’s angry with herself that this has happened. The sort of behaviour she thought she had put behind her.’

Sentencing Judge Andrew Woolman told Brown: ‘This was a very reckless thing to do and could have been so much worse. The reason for the suspended sentence is first of all because it was a reckless action rather than deliberate. You have expressed genuine remorse and regret and you pleaded guilty.’



Brown will also have to abide by a 10pm-6am curfew for 12 weeks and complete 150 hours of unpaid work.

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