A MUM who threw a bottle at her neighbour, hitting her in the face during a bloody attack has a string of previous convictions for violence but has STILL never been to jail.

Shannon Taylor was handed a 12 week prison sentence suspended for 12 months for lobbing a bottle at her neighbour, Laura Lapajne, following a bust-up at Barnes Way in Worcester.

The glass milk bottle, thrown over a fence, did not break. However, it hit Ms Lapajne in the mouth causing a cut which required five stitches as tempers flared at around 4pm on April 29 this year.

Taylor had been called a 'crack head' by the victim who accepted her children had also been squirting the defendant with water pistols. Ms Lapajne said she had told her children off before the assault.

The 26-year-old defendant, now facing eviction from her housing association property, admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Taylor's guilty plea was entered on the basis that a glass cider bottle was first thrown at her - the defendant said by Laura Lapajne - which broke near her head. Taylor also admitted affray after brandishing a baseball bat in the aftermath of the assault.

Before she was sentenced, Andrew Mitchinson, who prosecuted the case, went through Taylor's list of previous convictions, some of which were relevant to the sentence imposed for the bottle attack, some dating back to when she was a juvenile.

In 2014 she was convicted of assaulting a constable and sentenced to a community order. She was convicted of assaulting a constable once again in January 2015 and made subject to a supervision order with a tagging requirement. In March 2016 she was convicted of using threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour and fined £200.

Taylor was convicted of a drugs offence (possession of cannabis) in 2017. She was convicted of battery in November 2019 and handed an exclusion order with a tagging requirement. Also in November 2019 she was convicted of assault by beating of an emergency worker and was once again given a community order and required to pay compensation. We reported at the time how Taylor admitted committing four assaults on the same day following an incident at Worcester fast food outlet Shakeeys.

She pleaded guilty to two charges of assaulting an emergency worker after attacking PC Parsons and PC Callaway on October 12, 2019. She also admitted a racially aggravated section five public order offence against an A&E doctor and two further offences of assault by beating that day.

This community order was breached in September 2020 and she was fined £50.

Both prosecution and defence had agreed that the starting point for the bottle attack was 36 weeks in prison before mitigation and the guilty pleas were considered.

However, Sam Lamsdale, who represented Taylor at the trial of issue on Monday, said: "She does regret her actions that day. She is remorseful about throwing the bottle."

Taylor, now living in a one bedroom flat with her grandmother in Park Street, Worcester, must pay £100 in compensation to Ms Lapajne as well as a victim surcharge of £128 and court costs of £185, This will be deducted from her Universal Credit of £900 per month.