A drunken woman left two innocent strangers with scars on their faces after she took off her shoe and used the stiletto heel as a weapon.
Bar worker Sophie Morgan was so intoxicated when she carried out the attack in the centre of Exeter she could not remember it the next day.
She was caught after the victims identified her and her boyfriend from pictures they had posted on Facebook earlier in the evening in which she was wearing the same clothes and shoes.
Morgan, aged 22, of Burnthouse Lane, Exeter, and previously of Roehorn Lane, Nadderwater, admitted affray and was jailed for eight months, suspended for two years by Judge Graham Cottle at Exeter Crown Court.
He told her he was able to suspend the sentence because she has grown up in the three years since the attack and has addressed her abuse of alcohol.
He said: ’This was serious public disorder when you were under the influence of drink and behaving badly. You had taken so much drink you could not remember what you had done.
’You were drinking heavily at the time but your life has moved on. Behaviour of this sort in a public place in the middle of Exeter, injuring a couple of innocent people, is deserving of a custodial sentence.’
Mr Sean Brunton, prosecuting, said Morgan was out with her boyfriend Daniel Jordan when they went to the Subway and King Kebab food shops at about 11.15am.
They got into two different confrontations with victims Lewis Eveleigh and Shaida Churchley outside the two shops. One was about holding Jordan’s cigarette while he went inside, the other was about borrowing a mobile phone to call a taxi.
Morgan took off a shoe and used the sharply pointed heel to hit them both on the face, leaving one with a cut on his eyebrow and the other with a gash under her eye.
She went on to hit two other bystanders with the flat part of the shoe without causing any significant injury.
Mr Brunton said they were caught because one of the victims had been at school with Jordan and spotted him with Morgan in a picture he posted on Facebook.
He said: ’She saw a profile picture in which they were wearing exactly what they were wearing on the night and we suggest it was taken on that night. A screen shot was downloaded and taken to the police.’
Mr Brunton said Mr Eveleigh had his wound glued at the scene but Miss Churchly needed hospital treatment. He was left with a small mark on his eyebrow and she had a small scar beneath her eye.
She also suffered psychological effects and was left reluctant to go out for some time.
Mr Nigel Wraith, mitigating, said the case has taken almost three years to come to court and Morgan has suffered mental health issues because of the stress of waiting for it to be resolved.
He said Morgan showed genuine remorse and was ashamed of her actions, even though she had no memory of carrying out the attacks.