A Cromwell woman has been jailed for a year for assaulting three people, including stabbing a friend with a broken bottle.
She then grabbed an empty beer bottle from the laundry and smashed it on a door frame before approaching the victim and pushing it into the victim’s chest.
The broken glass pierced several layers of skin and caused a large wound.
The assault occurred while the defendant was serving a sentence for violent assaults on two men four months earlier.
On March 31, Wadsworth confronted her ex-employer when he arrived by car at an Orchard Pl property.
She approached him as he sat in the driver’s seat, and abused him for firing her from her job.
Wadsworth then opened the door and grabbed his throat, pulled his hair and repeatedly threatened to kill him.
The man’s associate got out of the car and attempted to pull the defendant off the victim.
As she switched her attention to the second man, the fracas moved into the property’s garage.
There she threw a can of premix alcohol and her phone at the second victim, followed by three more objects that struck him on his back, hand and elbow.
She then fled the scene before police arrived.
Wadsworth was sentenced in the Alexandra District Court on Tuesday on assault with a weapon, two charges of assault, and speaking threateningly.
Judge Michael Turner said her use of a "jagged piece of glass" as a weapon in the July incident could have killed the victim.
The defendant had a "huge footprint of violence", fuelled by her long-term alcohol and drug addictions.
He acknowledged the impact of her "unsatisfactory upbringing" and being placed in state care, and referred to a psychologist’s report that said she suffered from depression.
That condition was aggravated by her alcohol abuse, which caused "obsessive and violent behaviour".
He convicted the defendant and sentenced her to 12 months’ prison.
Also sentenced in the Alexandra District Court yesterday were:
• Ziek Johnston (32), of Cromwell, breaching alcohol interlock licence, Waenga Dr, May 12, three months’ and three weeks’ community detention, disqualified 28 days, alcohol interlock provisions.
• David Charles McNally (35), dairy worker, of Chatto Creek, aggravated drink-driving (797mcg), Chatto Creek-Springvale Rd, 75 hours’ community work, disqualified 13 months.
