A YOUNG mum who smashed a glass into a love rival’s head in a moment of jealous rage has been told she will not be jailed.

Jamila Helali began her bar room attack by shouting abuse at her victim, who she believed had slept with her boyfriend when she was pregnant.

Then, when the other girl approached the 25-year-old nanny to ask what was wrong she hit her in the face with a glass, leaving her scarred.

Helali pleaded not guilty to unlawful wounding, claiming she was acting in self defence, but she was convicted following a trial at Swindon Crown Court.

Victim Holly Gibbs told the trial she had gone out in Old Town with a few girlfriends on the evening of Friday July 14 last year.

After a couple of glasses of Prosecco in the Royal Oak they headed to Longs Bar on Victoria Road, going into the smoking area.

Almost immediately she said she was aware of a woman, who she recognised from social media as Helali because she knew her sister, shouting abuse at her.

David Maunder, prosecuting, said the defendant was yelling ‘slag’ and other derogatory terms, apparently being egged on by friends.

He said grainy CCTV showed Holly going across, her phone in one hand and bag in the other, to ask what the problem was.

The jury was told that the defendant almost immediately swung at her and caught her over her left eye with a glass, which did not break.

Following a short melee between the two groups of women, split up by bouncers the victim and friends set off to the Co-op car park for a lift to hospital.

But they bumped into the attacker’s group on Wood Street and as Holly was calling police she said the defendant came over and said: "I have got a kid, don’t do this to me."

When she was questioned Helali claimed she had simply meant to pour her drink on the victim as she feared she may be attacked and had not meant to strike her.

But following the trial, a jury of six men and six women found her guilty by a majority of 10 to two.

Richard Williams, defending, said his client lived alone with her son on Welbeck Close, Walcot, and worked as a nanny. He asked for a pre-sentence report to be carried out on his client, who had never been in trouble with the police before.

Judge Robert Pawson said “She has no previous, is a young single mother obviously doing a reasonable job in respect of raising her child who, in a moment of jealous rage and madness, carried out this assault.

“I am not minded to pass an immediate custodial sentence though it obviously a serious matter. She scarred another young person.”

He adjourned the case to November 22 and released her on bail, telling her to have no contact with prosecution witnesses.