A MOTHER-OF-FOUR who used one of her stilettos heels to permanently disfigure a man outside a city centre nightclub was jailed.

NHS worker Louise Kenny, aged 42, left Adam Welch with blood pouring down his face outside The Courtyard on Newport’s Cambrian Road after the unprovoked attack.

Prosecutor Lowri Wynn Morgan told how the defendant had taken off her four-and-a-half inch high heels before using one to strike her victim to the forehead.

Cardiff Crown Court heard how violence erupted after Kenny was arguing with an unknown man outside the club which Mr Welch became involved in.

Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke told the defendant the victim didn’t “appear to be aggressive” in the CCTV footage she was shown.

She said he had grabbed one of her shoes and thrown it after Kenny had “spat and lunged” at the other man.

Judge Lloyd-Clarke said: “You struck the victim hard on the forehead. He had blood running down his face and he couldn’t see.

“This was an unprovoked attack with a weapon. It was late night drunken violence.

“It happened in the presence of a lot of members of the public and could have led to serious disorder.”

After she was arrested, Miss Wynn Morgan said, the defendant told the custody officer at the police station: “He deserved it.”

When Kenny was interviewed by detectives, she claimed she had been verbally abused and that the men had been “antagonising her” and had acted “like a pack of hyenas to goad her”.

The defendant, of Hendre Farm Drive, Newport, admitted wounding during the early hours of Sunday, September 2, 2018.

Mr Welch was left with a 1cm circular wound to the forehead and had sought treatment at Abergavenny’s Nevill Hall Hospital.

As well as leaving him with a permanent scar, the complainant said in a victim impact statement how it has left with shooting pains.

Miss Wynn Morgan said Kenny had two previous convictions, both for violence, for assault occasioning actual bodily harm in 1995 and battery in 2011.

Kathryn Lane, mitigating, said her client, a single mother who worked had worked in an administrative role for the NHS for four years, had pleaded guilty at the first opportunity.

She told the judge: “She had taken her shoes off because her feet were hurting. This was an opportunistic strike by her in temper and in anger.”

Miss Lane said that Kenny had recently been the victim of domestic abuse and was on a rare night out with a friend to “let her hair down”.

Her barrister added: “She is not a party girl. This was a one-off.”

Judge Lloyd-Clarke jailed Kenny for eight months and told her she would serve half that sentence before being released on licence.

She must also a pay a victim surcharge. There was no order made for costs or compensation.