A WOMAN launched a glass attack in a nightclub after a row with a love rival, Worcester Crown Court has been told.

Charlotte Owen allegedly pushed a pint glass into the face of Nicola Mosley, where it smashed and left her covered in blood.

Miss Mosley told a jury they had both been out with the same man and she assumed that Owen harboured "ill feeling" over it.

Glass fragments went into her left eye and she had a scar above the eye, with more fragments still embedded in the flesh.

Owen, aged 21, of Foley Street, Hereford, denies unlawfully wounding Miss Mosley at Eros nightclub in the city on June 27 last year.

The defendant claims she was trying to throw the glass away during a scuffle on the dance floor and it accidentally hit the victim in the face.

Prosecutor Peter Grice said a heated argument broke out before Owen "quite deliberately" used the glass as a weapon. She was arrested at the club.

Giving evidence, Miss Mosley said Owen accused her of pushing before they began to have "words about things in the past". She had been out with a man called Mark Harris. Four months after they split up, Owen went out with him.

She claimed Owen wanted to fight outside the club before pushing her backwards. As she raised an arm in self-defence, Owen pushed the glass into her face.

"It struck my left eyebrow and cheek. I just felt pain and the drink being thrown over me," she said.

Cross-examined by defence counsel Kevin Hegarty, she said she bore no ill-will about past relationships although the defendant obviously did.

''No accident''

She denied a suggestion that she punched Owen in the eye before she got glassed and added: "It was definitely no accident."

Victoria Lane told the jury that her best friend, Mosley, retaliated to pushing from Owen by putting up her arms.

"Charlotte had a glass in her hand and pushed it into Nicola's face," she added.

"Nicola wasn't in a fighting mood. She had blood on her face and couldn't see."

Ian Reed said he was standing behind Miss Mosley and saw the glass in the defendant's hand as the women argued. He then saw Owen raise her right hand and push the glass into the victim's face.

The trial continues.