A WOMAN who stabbed a man in the face with a broken bottle in Keighley’s K2 Nightclub has been spared an immediate prison sentence.

Amy Kelly attacked James Matthews in the early hours of April 6 last year after he goaded her to “have the guts” to use the piece of broken glass on him, Bradford Crown Court heard today.

Kelly, 23, of Salisbury Road, Keighley, pleaded guilty to unlawfully and maliciously wounding Mr Matthews with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.

Judge Colin Burn sentenced her to two years’ imprisonment, suspended for two years, with a six month curfew order, 200 hours of unpaid work and a rehabilitation activity requirement.

He told Kelly: “This turned out to be some kind of toxic combination of Mr Matthews goading you and advancing towards you, and your established and known history of wholesale character change when intoxicated.”

Prosecutor Paul Nicholson said there was ill-feeling between Kelly and Mr Matthews in the club, in Church Street, that night.

Kelly at first punched him, causing no injury, before picking up a bottle and smashing it.

She swung it at him severing an artery in his face and he would have bled to death without prompt medical attention, the court was told.

An ambulance was called and at first, Mr Matthews declined treatment but his friend flagged it down and he changed his mind.

“If he hadn’t been treated, he would have bled to death,” Mr Nicholson said.

Kelly’s barrister, Katherine Robinson, said she had no previous convictions and the offence was 15 months old.

She was fully aware of what she had done and extremely remorseful.

Judge Burn told Kelly: “You came very close to killing another person.”

If Mr Matthews had not been persuaded to allow the paramedics to treat him, it was very likely that he would have died.

He had been left with a quite unpleasant scar where his artery was severed.

Kelly had “dabbed” at him about six times with the broken bottle causing other superficial injuries.

But a psychological report stated that she had “little or no deep thought about what she was doing at the time”.

“The horror of what you had done came home to you when you were no longer under the influence of intoxicants, whether alcohol or cocaine,” Judge Burn said.

Kelly had a borderline personality disorder and there was some provocation in the circumstances of the attack.

Judge Burn said there was a very real prospect of rehabilitation in her case. She had pleaded guilty five months ago and had the matter hanging over her head since.

He warned her that she had come very close to going to prison and reserved any breaches of the sentence to himself.