A MOTHER-of-three who left a woman terrified she had been blinded in a vicious attack after a boozy, all-night hen party has been jailed for four and a half years.

Emma Mitchell, 30, had hit Chantelle Zoe Phillips repeatedly with a weapon, believed to be a bottle, when the victim was off-guard and after telling her: “I have never liked you, Chantelle.”

Ms Phillips suffered serious lacerations, one just above her left eye, was bleeding profusely, had to have 13 stitches and had been left scarred, after the early hours attack in a Blackburn flat in February last year, Burnley Crown Court heard.

The defendant, a part-time fashion shop supervisor, was said to have had post-natal depression and also elements of post traumatic stress disorder, after “years of domestic abuse” at the hands of her then partner.

Mitchell, of Douglas Place, Blackburn, had been convicted by a jury of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, after a recent trial.

She denied the allegation, still protested her innocence and, the court heard, “had shown no remorse.”

Amanda Johnson, prosecuting, said on February 12 last year, Ms Phillips went to Manchester on a hen night.

At about 1am the next day, the group returned to Blackburn by coach and carried on the party in a pub.

Both the defendant and the victim were there.

Miss Johnson said when Ms Phillips opened her eyes after the attack, she couldn’t see much out of her left eye and thought she had been blinded.

Mitchell had been standing in front of her. The victim was bleeding and as she left in a taxi to hospital, the defendant shouted: “Chantelle, I’m going to kill you.”

Ms Phillips had suffered a one and half inch forehead wound over her left eye, a laceration to her head, extensive swelling and bruising around her left eye.

Mitchell was arrested at her home that day and handed police the dress she had been wearing, which had the victim's blood on it.