Young woman scarred for life after smiling and hugging a woman she thought she knew

A young woman was glassed in the face simply for smiling at a woman she thought she recognized, a court heard. 

 

Rosie had a wine glass slammed in her face by 20-year-old Charlotte Green - leaving her with her cheek hanging off and a facial twitch. 

Rosie needed 25 stitches to the 3cm cut to her left cheek, 2cm cut to her eyelid, 1cm cut to her eyebrow.

Rosie said she was set upon after recognising Green from her sister’s football team when they were younger, and that she smiled across the bar "to say hello".

But Green thought she was looking at her in a "sarcastic way". Green then went over to say to Rosie: "Do you have a problem with me?" before lunging at her with the glass.

Mr Neil Coxon prosecuting, said the attacker's pal, Hannah Thorpe told police that Green had "got a face on" and was "being mardy about something" that night.

She said it was "typical" of her friend, who could go from being the "life and soul of the party" to "looking for trouble".

 

Green appeared in court last Friday and was jailed after admitting causing grievous bodily harm in May last year at The Chantrey pub in Woodseats, Sheffield.

Rosie, an administrator from Sheffield has endured numerous operations and now suffers flashbacks.

She told the court: “I thought she had punched me at first and I put my hand to my cheek but could then feel pouring blood and a flap of skin where my cheek was hanging off.