A 'DRUNK' woman smashed a pint glass over the head of a school friend in a pub, a court heard.

Laura Imogen Price, from Wigton, narrowly avoided being jailed after the incident at the Grey Goat pub on Sandgate, Penrith on October 10 last year.

Magistrates were told the 33-year-old was refused service at the pub because she seemed inebriated.

She then went over to a table where a couple were drinking and picked up a pint glass from a male school friend she knew sitting at the table, the court head.

Price, of High Street, took a drink from a pint glass and smashed the glass over the man's head - causing a cut to his face above his right eyebrow, the hearing was told.

Police arrived and when she was searched a small amount of class A drug cocaine and a small lock knife attached to a key ring was found.

She admitted possession of class A drug cocaine, possession of a lock knife and assault causing actual bodily harm and appeared at North and West Cumbria Magistrates Court in Carlisle for sentencing,

Steven Marsh, mitigating, told magistrates his client thought she had thrown the glass towards a table before it smashed and the broken glass caused the injury.

Miss Price has had a difficult few years and has long-standing mental health issues, he said.

She apologised for the incident and the injury caused, he added.

After reading pre-sentence reports prepared by the probation service, magistrates sentenced Price to a six-month concurrent prison sentence for the possession of a knife and the assault but suspended it for 18-months there was no separate penalty for the drug possession.

Magistrates also imposed an electronically tagged house curfew for 28 days between 7pm and 7am.

Price must attend 20 days of a rehabilitation activity programme and an alcohol monitoring programme lasting 120 days.

She also has to pay £200 in compensation to the injured victim.

The drugs and the lock-knife were ordered to be fortified and destroyed.