A KATES Hill mother who left a young woman scarred for life when she hit her with a flying high heeled shoe having missed her intended target has been jailed for 24 weeks.

Margaret Flynn had been drinking heavily and she was ejected from a Stourbridge bar after getting into a heated altercation with another woman, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told.

She threw the shoe as she was leaving The Arena in Hagley Road, hitting Sarah Parkes on the forehead and causing a nasty gash that needed nine stitches in hospital.

At the time of the attack the mother-of-two was the subject of a suspended prison sentence imposed for battery - another offence she committed while in drink.

Judge Mark Eades told Flynn she had been given the chance to keep her freedom at the earlier court hearing but she had done little to curb her bad behaviour.

“You were drunk, you threw the shoe at someone else and it missed them and hit a third party,” said the judge.

“In my view the sands of time have run out for you and it’s time for you to face the music.”

Flynn, aged 28, of Jasmine Road, showed no emotion as she was lead away to begin her time behind bars but Nicole Steers, defending, maintained she was full of remorse for her actions.

“She threw the shoe recklessly,” she added.

“It was a single blow at a time when she was very drunk. She drinks and she misbehaves."

Miss Steers said Flynn was willing to undergo treatment for her alcohol abuse as she unsuccessfully pleaded with the judge to give her one more chance.

Harinder Pal Dhami, prosecuting, said Miss Parkes had been walking out of the nightspot with her partner when she suddenly felt a “whack” to her forehead and discovered she was bleeding badly.

In a victim impact statement Miss Parkes later told police the incident had badly affected her confidence and she was now wary and anxious about going out at night.

She said she suffered a lot of pain, she had been scarred for life adding, “I have no idea who the assailant was.”

It was clear, said the judge, that Flynn, who has 10 previous convictions on her criminal record, had been “drinking herself into oblivion” and she had little recollection of the incident.

Flynn was jailed for 12 weeks after admitting assaulting Miss Parkes causing her actual bodily harm and also breaching suspended prison sentence.

She had been given an 18 week jail term, suspended for a year, and the judge ruled she should have to serve 12 weeks from that sentence - to run consecutively to the other 12 weeks.