Drink and cocaine-fuelled mother-of-two, 28, is jailed for stamping on head of defenceless man as he lay outside wine bar
- Mother Tasmin Riley, 28, repeatedly stamped on and kicked David Howarth
- She was on night out with friends and had been drinking and taken cocaine
- When Mr Howarth was set upon by a group of men 'angry' Riley joined in
- She pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and was jailed
Tasmin Riley (pictured) repeatedly stamped and kicked David Howard outside Baggies Wine Bar in Great Harwood after he had been attacked
A mother-of-two who stamped on the head of a defenceless man during a drink and drug induced rage has been jailed for 12 months.
Tasmin Riley, a mother-of-two, of Accrington, Lancashire, repeatedly stamped on and kicked David Howard outside Baggies Wine Bar in Great Harwood after he had been attacked by an unknown group of men.
Burnley Crown Court heard Riley was ‘very angry at the time of the incident’ and had been ‘drinking everything she could get her hands on' including shots and pints of lager and had taken cocaine.
Riley, 28, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and was jailed for 12 months.
Stephen Parker, prosecuting, said the incident happened at around 4.30am on August 22 last year outside the wine bar on Glebe Street.
The court heard how someone had punched Mr Howard in his side as he was leaving the bar but he ‘didn’t know who it was’ and when he got outside he was ‘pushed to the floor without warning’.
Mr Parker said the victim put his hands over his face and head to ‘try and protect himself’ as he was kicked by a group of men.
One witness later told police: ‘Nowhere on his body was being spared. One of them even took a run-up and kicked him like he was playing football.”
Mr Parker said Riley then joined in and stamped on his head and upper body and later returned and kicked him again to the body.
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The prosecutor said the witness, who tried to intervene and break up the attack, was left ‘very upset’ by the incident and was ‘disgusted to watch people there kicking a man on the floor’.
Mr Parker said Mr Howard got up a few moments later and went to Great Harwood police station to report the attack, but it was closed.
Burnley Crown Court heard Riley was ‘very angry at the time of the incident’ and had been ‘drinking everything she could get her hands on' including shots and pints of lager and had taken cocaine
Mr Howard suffered bruising and swelling to an eye, lacerations to his face and bruises to his back and ribs, but he did not go to hospital.
The court heard when Riley was later arrested and interviewed by police she told them she was ‘in a bad way at the time’, had been out with friends and had drank a lot of alcohol and taken some cocaine.
Mr Parker said she was ‘very angry’ and claimed Mr Howard had grabbed her arm on the way out of the wine bar.
She said she had ‘lost her temper’ but there was ‘no valid reason whatsoever to do what she’d done’.
Riley, 28, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and was jailed for 12 months
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