A RAGING mum left her best friend needing 41 stitches after she glassed her across the face in a horrifying bar brawl.
Ebony Jones, 26, smashed the glass on Megan Smith four times in a drunken row over the sale of a dog.
The violent attack only ended when fellow revellers pulled the pair apart.
Aspiring nursery worker Jones sobbed as she was after she pleaded guilty to wounding with intent.
Newport Crown heard the bust-up took place at the Emporium Snooker Club in Caerphilly, .
Prosecutor Byron Broadstock said: “Previously they had been good friends but recently their relationship had taken a turn for the worse over a completely unrelated matter.
“Miss Smith told the defendant to ‘leave me alone' and ‘get away from me' – she wouldn't.
“The next thing she recalls is the defendant's right arm come towards her with a half pint glass in it. That struck her to the face connecting with her left eye.”
The court heard Jones was captured on CCTV striking Megan with the glass up to four times during the attack.
She needed 41 stitches to her face in total and has been left with permanent scarring.
In a victim impact statement, Megan said she is now known as “Megan Scar” around her hometown due to her injuries.
The mum also told how she is a “shell of my former self” and the psychological impact of the attack has damaged her with her boyfriend, parents and friends.
She added: “Following the assault my life has not been the same.
“Ebony and I had been friends for years and had a very close relationship and treated each others' families as our own – I can't believe she assaulted me this badly.
“Ebony has betrayed me in the worst possible way – she has ruined my life.
“I just can’t believe she assaulted me. She was my best friend.”
As well as a jail sentence, Jones was handed a restraining order banning her from contacting Megan for ten years.
Judge Hywel James said: “Custody is required when in a public place an individual uses a glass to strike someone in the face, not once, but up to four times.
“Such a sentence is in part a deterrent against such behaviour in public places.”
