A DRUNKEN mum-of-three who was jailed after she glassed another woman in a pub has failed in a Court of Appeal bid to clear her name.
Gemma Simpson, aged 26, of Lancaster Drive, Little Lever, launched the savage attack during a night out at the village's New Inn in September 2015.
After an argument with a 27-year-old woman, she smashed a glass into the victim's face, causing serious cuts.
Simpson denied it was deliberate, but was convicted of wounding with intent at Bolton Crown Court in April last year.
Facing a four-year jail sentence, she took her case to the Court of Appeal in London in an attempt to overturn the conviction.
She claimed new evidence from a witness backed up her defence, meaning the guilty verdict was "unsafe".
However, in a short hearing, three senior judges said Simpson's bid to appeal was "unarguable".
The evidence was completely different from the account which the witness had given of the incident shortly after it happened, said Judge Sarah Munro QC.
Her new account mirrored that given by Simpson in her defence at the trial, continued the judge.
She said there was "every reason" to conclude that the fresh evidence was "not capable of belief".
Simpson's application to appeal was refused.
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