A young veterinary assistant caught on a hotel’s CCTV during a drunken naked wine bottle attack on her boyfriend has been sentenced.
Amelia Oxenford, 21, had been out drinking all night with Alex Buttigieg, but turned on him during a 2.45am row at the Ascot Hyde Park Hotel, Bayswater.
CCTV footage - pixilated to protect her modesty - was played during her trial showing Oxenford pursuing her boyfriend from the room.
Oxenford, of Cheyney Close, Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire was convicted of assaulting Mr. Buttigieg on January 16 and causing £300 worth of criminal damage to his spectacles.
Yesterday she was sentenced to a twelve-month community order, which includes 160 hours of unpaid work and must complete up to ten days of rehab.
Oxenford must also pay £620 court costs, £250 compensation to Mr. Buttigieg and an £80 victim surcharge.
District Judge Ken Grant told her: “I can quite understand having the trial reported must have been upsetting for you.
“The offences are clearly serious enough for a community punishment to be imposed.
“I am in no doubt at all that you will find it difficult to comply, but you must comply.”
Prosecutor Mr. Trevor Green told the original trial she threw the empty wine bottle at the victim and slashed him across the face with a shard of broken glass when they returned to their room.
When police arrived they saw Mr. Buttigieg nursing a 2cm cut to his bleeding nose with a tissue, describing him as “shocked” and “rambling” as he unsuccessfully tried to stop the flow of blood.
The couple had dated for nine months and reunited after a one-month split, during which time Oxenford had seen another man, triggering the hotel row.
“This resulted in Ms Oxenford pushing him into the corridor and on the CCTV she can ben seen naked and lunging at the victim,” explained Mr. Green.
“He said she threw an empty bottle of wine at him and there was a brief tussle when she reached out for the spectacles on his face and one of the arms were snapped off.”
Nude Oxenford locked herself out of the room and Mr. Buttigieg went to reception for a spare key, but the couple continued rowing when back inside.
A small glass was smashed in the bathroom and Oxenford armed herself with a shard. “Mr. Buttigieg told the police she attacked him with a piece of broken glass that caused the injury to his nose,” said the prosecutor.
When police arrived they heard her shouting inside the room that she was going to harm herself and jump out of the window and when the door was opened to officers she was now only wearing a bra.
One officer said: “She was agitated, under the influence of alcohol, she was drunk. She was slurring her words and there was an overwhelming smell of alcohol on her breath.
“He said she came at him, punching him and picked up the piece of glass and swiped it at him, causing the cut.”
Oxenford told the court the couple began boozing early, polishing off a bottle of wine during the train journey to London, another during dinner and she had four more cocktails that night.
“I can’t remember a lot of what happened, but I do remember Alex shouting at me and pinning me down to the bed.
“I was terrified and vulnerable and he was very aggressive.
“I have a good job and work hard and like to think I’m a good citizen. I’ve never committed a crime.
“I felt like I was defending myself in all honesty and felt he did hit me as well.”
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