TWO young Bournemouth women have each been sentenced to 12 months detention after being convicted of separate glassing incidents that left their female victims scarred for life.

The cases of Natalie Bishop and Sara Hadfield came up before the same judge in a single morning at Bournemouth Crown Court. Both admitted unlawful wounding.

In each case, Recorder Nicholas Rowland told the women their offence was so serious that only an immediate custodial sentence could be justified.

Bishop, 19, of Northey Road, Southbourne, will serve her time in a young offenders' institution, while Hadfield, 25, of Portman Road, Winton, was sent to prison.

The court heard that Bishop clashed with her victim, Charlotte Madden, at the Consortium on Richmond Hill just after 12.15am on March 18 last year.

Prosecutor Tim Bradbury said Miss Madden was friendly with Bishop's then boyfriend, Wesley Shillingford.

There was a "cat fight", and the pair were broken up. "Bishop was heard to say: I'm going to bottle you'. She approached Miss Madden with a Stella bottle in her right hand and struck the front of her head," he said.

Miss Madden was left with a 3cm cut, which needed 15 stitches and has left her permanently scarred.

Defence counsel Iain Ross said Bishop had "spiralled out of control" around the age of 16 after her parents broke up and her mother began a relationship with a man who was abusive and addicted to heroin.

Hadfield's victim was 23-year-old student nurse Victoria Cooper, who shared a house in Langton Road, Boscombe, with two colleagues. On June 15 last year, there was a small party at the house. After Hadfield arrived, Miss Cooper felt the atmosphere had changed and asked her to leave.

"Her response was to stand up from where she had been sitting. She picked up a glass, approached Miss Cooper and smashed the glass into her face," said prosecutor Robert Grey.

Miss Cooper was cut right down to the muscle in her right cheek, causing permanent scarring and nerve damage. She had also become worried about going out.

Defence counsel Paul Hester said on the night of the offence, Hadfield had left her own birthday celebration because of an argument involving her partner. "She went in, in that emotional state, having had drink and things got out of hand," he said.