Street-fight mum escapes jail

A DRUNKEN mum viciously assaulted two people when she lost all self control during a street row after a night out in Oldham town centre.

Gillian Carr, 33, head-butted James Kenway, and hit Chloe Harewood in the face with her shoes, fracturing her nose, Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court was told.

Carr who pleaded guilty to two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and has a previous conviction for violence, was told by Judge Maurice Greene: "Trouble seems to follow you around."

He said there had been a degree of provocation, but her actions had been unnecessary and disproportionate. He said it had been a "moment of madness" when she could simply have walked away.

Carr, of Browning Road, Oldham, was told she could have been sent straight to prison, but Judge Green said he felt able to give her a 12-month sentence suspended for eighteen months.

She was ordered to pay £300 compensation to Ms Harewood, and £100 to Mr Kenway.

Charlotte Johnson, prosecuting, said the assaults had taken place on Yorkshire Street, Oldham, in the early hours of October 24, 2015, after Mr Kenway had left the Bamboogie Bar.

She said there had been an altercation in which Carr head butted him after mistakenly believing he had been acting aggressively towards her niece.

Carr, who had claimed to be an off-duty police officer, then became involved in a scuffle with Ms Harewood, hitting her with her shoes which she had been carrying in her hand.

The court was told that she was still having ongoing treatment for the injury, and it had ended her hopes of a career with the Royal Navy, as she had been deemed medically unfit.

Gemma Maxwell, defending, said her client had been provoked, but accepted her behaviour had been excessive.

She said Ms Carr, who has a 15-year-old daughter, had shown genuine remorse, and shown a clear insight into the nature of the injuries caused.

She said Carr had a tendency to over-react since being 'glassed' in a bar attack seven years ago. Her client worked hard and had sole care of her daughter.

Since the incident on Yorkshire Street, she had stopped going out drinking in the town centre.