UPDATE: |Mum-of-three’s chilling messages before beer bottle attack News

Jennifer Barry has been jailed

A woman sent chilling messages to a woman before launching an attack with a broken beer bottle. Jennifer Barry, 27, had been drinking heavily following a birthday party.

Things escalated when she accused a woman of failing to back back her during a bust-up. A barrage of abusive and threatening messages followed.

Barry went to the woman’s Merseyside home in the early hours. After a scuffle, the mum-of-three used a shattered bottle in a sickening attack.

A judge told Barry she had ’caused mayhem in the middle of the night’. Liverpool Crown Court was earlier told the incident happened in April last year.

Barry accused someone of ‘slating her’, the Liverpool Echo reports. Another woman left the party to avoid trouble. She later received messages including ‘meet me’; ‘come on’; ‘front me’; and ‘f*** off’.

She turned up at 3.45am carrying a bottle of beer. Barry knocked on the door before kicking it. The woman and her partner tried to get Barry to leave before she broke the bottle and tried to ‘gouge the Ring doorbell from the frame’.

She later hit the woman in the face with the bottle, leaving her with a slashed cheek. The woman said she was left needing 25 to 30 stitches and will be left with a scar.

Barry entered guilty pleas to section 18 wounding with intent; two counts of section 20 wounding; criminal damage; and possession of an offensive weapon last October.

In mitigation, Philip Astbury, defending, told the court his client understood an immediate custodial sentence was inevitable. He told the court she had described her actions as ‘stupid and disgusting’.

She ‘hated herself for what she did’, he added. He said Barry recently had her third child and was in the mum and baby unit at HMP Styal.

Mr Astbury told the court: “She is a young woman not before the courts before who has used her time in custody positively and despite all the difficulties which she wrestles she has made progress and is motivated to keep making progress to not be before the court again.”

Sentencing, the Honorary Recorder of Merseyside Judge Andrew Menary KC told Barry she had a ‘real problem with alcohol’. He said he didn’t believe she took the bottle to the woman’s home to use it as a weapon.

Barry was jailed for five years and seven months; and made the subject of a restraining order.