Jealous Party Girl's Bottle Attack On Ex

A party girl who downed twenty pints during an all-day birthday celebration flew into a jealous rage and sent her ex to hospital with a head wound after hurling a beer bottle across a crowded bar.

Youth worker Lisa Penfold, 23, of Bernard Close, Wallington, Surrey had thumped ex-boyfriend Jack Highett twice in the face before running up behind him and throwing the bottle in the midnight attack.

Mum-of-one Penfold pleaded guilty at Inner London Crown Court to assaulting her ex, causing him actual bodily harm, at The White House bar, Clapham Park Road, Clapham, on April 13.

Prosecutor Mr. Peter Pride told the court Penfold (pictured above) and Mr. Highett, her ex-boyfriend, were in separate groups at the popular bar.

The victim was approached by friends of Penfold, telling him the defendant did not approve of his new girlfriend, so he approached her to smooth things over.

After simply saying ‘hello’ Penfold snapped: “Don’t you fucking talk to me. Bollocks, I’ve got a real man now.”

“She then punched him in the mouth with her right fist which caused a cut to the left side of his mouth,” explained Mr. Pride. “She then punched him again over the left eye.”

Mr.Highett turned and began climbing stairs. “He heard running behind him and felt a heavy object hit him on the left side of the head and then saw a glass bottle flying over his left shoulder.”

Bleeding Mr. Highett was rushed to St. Thomas’ Hospital with a 4 cm laceration to his scalp and police arrested Penfold at the scene.

She told officers: “Yeah. I did it. Nobody threatens me.”

When quizzed later Penfold told police she had drunk twenty pints during an all-day birthday celebration for a friend in her group, added Mr. Pride.

Penfold claims she threw the bottle in anger and with no intention to seriously hurt her ex and deeply regrets her behaviour.

“The aggravating feature is that you threw a bottle,” Recorder Anthony Dinkin QC told the tearful first time offender. “This is a serious matter and you did cause injury, but fortunately it was not permanent, but did require hospital treatment.”

Penfold was sentenced to an eighteen-month community order, including a six-month alcohol treatment requirement plus 100 hours of unpaid community work.

She was also ordered to pay £250 compensation to Mr. Highett.