A MOTHER-of-three who avoided jail for a glassing attack at a Blackburn nightclub has sparked controversy online.

Cherelle Brown, 27, was given a suspended sentence at Preston Crown Court after launching a bottle at Samuel Litherland at the former Switch nightclub.

But moments after being released from the dock, Brown, of Park Lee Road, Blackburn, was pictured taking a selfie in the shadow of the court.

Later she posted on social media that she was “feeling like the luckiest little b**** ever” and remarking how her children had “saved me from myself”.

Her victim, Mr Litherland, who still faces plastic surgery to repair damage to his eyelid, reposted a picture of the selfie and said: “Says it all really”.

Brown and Mr Litherland had fallen out after she had a child with one of his apprentices, an earlier court hearing was told.

Brown’s barrister Mark Stuart, minutes before the selfie was apparently taken, had told Judge Andrew Woolman that, if she was sent to custody, at least two of her children faced being separated.

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Brown, who was convicted of unlawful wounding, had a string of convictions, as a juvenile, for offences including assault and theft.

Mr Stuart told the court there had been “considerable changes in her life” since then, with the arrival of her children, and she had been bringing them up on her own.

In the seconds following the nightclub attack, Brown described how he saw stars and his eye filled with blood.

Brown had to be escorted away by a doorman and later tried to defend her actions on Facebook.

He later told police that his injury had been aggravated by dust on building sites, where he worked.