A disgruntled woman smashed a plate in the face of a chip shop owner and left her with a bloody nose following a row over an order.Wendy Mountford, 55, struck Shirley Hollies with the plate, causing it to break, after hurling chips and mushy peas at her back.
She then proceeded to pull her hair during the incident at her home in Biddulph, Stoke-on-Trent Live reports.Mountford denied using the plate as a weapon and claimed that she had only been acting in self-defence after Mrs Hollies had attacked her.
However, she was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm following a trial at North Staffordshire Justice Centre.
During her defence evidence, Mountford admitted that she sometimes took too much prescription medication and hallucinated.The court heard Mountford had called to order two meals from Shepherd Street Chippy in Biddulph on the evening of April 24, 2021.
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