A BEAUTY salon worker who "glassed" her boyfriend's ex-partner by accident has been spared jail.

Single mother Jeanette Pateman, 31, threw a drink in someone else's face in the Dog Inn, Clitheroe, but the glass slipped out of her hand and hit Michelle Eccleston in the face.

The victim, mother of the defendant's partner Stephen Woodward's two children, suffered three gashes to her forehead, Burnley Crown Court heard.

Pateman, who is employed part-time at Genesis Hair and Salon in Clitheroe, was given 280 hours of community service and a two-month curfew, between 10pm and 7am. She must pay £520 compensation.

Sentencing, Judge Angela Nield told the defendant glasses were lethal and she and the victim were very fortunate her injuries were not much worse.

The judge said if Miss Eccleston had been more severely injured Pateman would have been going to prison.

She continued: "People who are out drinking socially should not be subjected to assaults of this nature or witnessing assaults of this nature."

Pateman, of Colthurst Drive, Clitheroe, admitted assault causing actual bodily harm, last August.

Sergey Prokofiev, defending, said Pateman was educated and should have known better but she had since shown a lot of remorse.