A Montrose woman plunged a pint glass into a love rival’s head after spotting her on a night out.
Lesha Grant burst into tears when she was jailed at Dundee Sheriff Court for nine months.
Grant, 24, admitted injuring and permanently disfiguring another woman on Ferry Street on December 4 2021.
She also pled guilty to possessing an offensive weapon – the pint glass – in a public place.
Street attack
The court previously heard Grant, of Annat Road, had been in the Anchor Bar in Montrose.
Her eventual victim had also been there, separately, with friends.
She noticed Grant in the female toilets and due to prior issues, told her friends she wanted to leave.
Outside, on Ferry Street, they became aware of Grant following her.
After shouting, Grant struck her on the head with a pint glass she was carrying.
She then dragged her to the ground and repeatedly punched and kicked her head and body.
She told the stricken woman: “That’s for s****ing my boyfriend” and walked off back to the bar.
Bleeding heavily, the victim was helped by staff at nearby Devito’s Nightclub.
She had a burst lip from which glass was removed and a cut to the back of her head.
Police were called and her parents took her to Ninewells, where she had a 3cm laceration glued shut.
She was found to have a chipped front tooth and bruising.
She is still scarred from the cut.
‘No alternative’ to prison
Defence solicitor Scott Norrie urged Sheriff Paul Brown to “step back” from jailing his client.
He said: “Miss Grant is under no illusions – she realises the seriousness of this offence.”
However, the sheriff imposed a nine-month sentence, reduced from 14 months as she pled guilty at the earliest opportunity.
He told her “You have crossed the threshold for custody here.
“Given the serious nature of the offence and your record, I see no alternative to a custodial sentence.”
Grant broke down in tears as she was escorted from the dock by a custody officer.
History of offending
Grant has previous convictions for violence, threatening and abusive behaviour, offences against police and breaching court orders.
She was already under supervision when she committed the grisly assault.
In 2018, she attacked another woman in a different Montrose bar.
At a previous hearing at Forfar Sheriff Court, Grant pled guilty to assaulting a woman in Sharky’s Bar that July by punching her on the head to her injury.
During the same court date, Grant admitted threatening to disclose an intimate image of a man on social media, with the intent of causing him fear, alarm or distress.
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