A woman has been spared jail after she admitted striking a man's face with a glass while in a “drunken stupor”.

Lydia Bradshaw, 33, from Thames Ditton, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding after she pushed  the glass into a stranger's face at Adventure Bar, Battersea Rise, on January 26, causing him to need seven stitches just above his eye.

Sam Robinson, defending, said Bradshaw had not been out for several months and began drinking at 3pm on the day of the attack, and was “having a great time” at a friend’s birthday party. The attack happened in the early hours of the morning.

Mr Robinson said: “She was not equipped at all for the amount of alcohol she drank that night. That is why she got herself in to the position she did.”

In Bradshaw’s pre-sentence report, Mr Robinson said she described the victim as “being in her face” before the incident.

Judge Judith Coello said: “She did not know what she was doing because she was drunk. Pushing the glass up against somebody’s face does have an obvious risk to it. The fact she was drunk does not excuse that action at all.”

Making reference to character statements, Mr Robinson said Bradshaw was a “very calm and reasonable person” and said friends described her as “caring and loveable”.

Mr Robinson asked the judge to give Bradshaw an amount of unpaid work and pay compensation because “the feeling she has at the moment about what she has done will ensure that she will never do that again”.

Judge Coello said: “I have given you full credit for pleading guilty at the very early stage.

“This was an offence which occurred in a club when you, in what I can only describe as a drunken stupor, struck the bottom of his glass and it went up in to his eyebrow and required him to have seven stitches.

“You have now accepted this was a very reckless, stupid action on your part. However your action was criminal. It is fortunate the glass did not break.

“I do consider there is a very low risk of you offending again.”

Delivering the sentence, Judge Coello said: “This is an offence that is something this court could have sent you to prison for but I am not going to do that.”

Bradshaw, who lives in Warwick Gardens, was handed a community order for 12 months and is required to perform 200 hours of unpaid work.

Judge Coello said: “If you fail to comply with that it will go back to magistrates. If it comes back to this court, it is very likely you will go to prison.”

Bradshaw will also have to pay £800 to the victim within 28 days, £500 costs to the prosecution and a £60 victim surcharge.