A BEAUTY therapist left a man with permanent facial scars after hitting him in the face with a bottle.

Blackburn magistrates heard Stacie Marie Dempsey had earlier bitten the same man on the finger so hard that he told police he thought she was going to bite it off.

Dempsey, 27, of Exchange Street, Accrington, pleaded guilty to assaulting Michael Roberts and assaulting him causing actual bodily harm. She was sent on bail to Burnley Crown Court to be sentenced on January 4.

Charlotte Crane, prosecuting, said Mr Roberts was at a party with his partner. At about 1am he went outside and there was fight going on involving his partner and Dempsey.

He said he went to pull his partner away and as he did Dempsey took his hand towards her mouth and bit him hard, causing his finger to bleed profusely.

Later in the night, when everything had calmed down, Mr Roberts went outside for a cigarette and saw the defendant again. He tried to speak to her and sort things out but her response was that she didn’t care what she had done.

“As he stepped out of the front door she hit him in the face with a glass bottle,” said Miss Crane. “He put his hands to his face and they were covered in blood. He thinks he lost consciousness briefly.”

In a victim impact statement Mr Roberts said the incident had left him feeling paranoid that something might happen to him again. He said he had been left with a scar down the middle of his nose and one across his left cheek. The wound to his finger became infected and the infection tracked back up his arm.

Mr Roberts said he was reluctant to go out and as a result his girlfriend had finished with him and his mother said his whole personality had changed.

Sarah Aslam, defending, said Dempsey had been arguing with her boyfriend’s sister and others had got involved. She claimed the aggrieved’s girlfriend had slapped her and she slapped her back which started the fight.

“While that was happening she saw a man over her and she thought she was being attacked,” said Miss Aslam. “She says that later in the evening, when Mr Roberts came outside he was calling her a dog and not trying to smooth things over. She says she was trying to push him away and forgot she had the bottle in her hand.”