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Woman jailed for vicious nightclub glass attack

Date published: 03 February 2009

The woman who drove a glass into the face of a trainee teacher on a nightclub dance floor has been jailed for 18 months.

Lisa Scraggs became aggressive towards Laura Clarke, 21 as she danced with friends in a Manchester nightclub in September 2007.

The 23-year-old glassed her in the face with such force she was left with two deep wounds which paramedics say were an inch away from death.

Laura Clarke, a student teacher, needed 20 stitches on her face, on wounds that were close to her eye and jugular vein.

Scraggs, of Middleton denied the wounding charge and was convicted by a jury. She was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.

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Headlines like this really do make you despair...what possesses people to think that their violent actions will not have direct and far reaching consequences? Life isn't like Tom and Jerry where you can drop a piano on someone and they get up and walk away. Alcohol is clearly the deciding factor in people's behaviour...yet another case of 'beer in,wit out' with disastrous results.