A WOMAN who attacked a stranger for no reason by striking him hard with a bottle to the back of the head has been jailed.

The attack happened as the victim was one night walking to his Deeside home from the gym.

He felt a sudden blow to the head which caused a deep wound which needed stitching.

Barrister Karl Scholz, prosecuting, told Mold Crown Court there was “no rhyme or reason for the attack”.

The victim had done nothing whatsoever to attacker Chelsea Whaley and they were not known to each other.

It turned out that she was also responsible for an unprovoked attack on a teenage girl on Deeside.

Whaley, 23, of Dean’s Avenue in Connah’s Quay, was jailed for two years after she admitted wounding Kieran Cogley in September, assaulting a girl aged 14 on an earlier occasion and criminal damage.

Judge Niclas Parry said while on bail and subjected to a suspended prison sentence,Whaley approached a stranger in the street .

“He was walking listening to his music," said the judge.

“For no reason, you struck him from behind to the right side of the head with a bottle with sufficient force to cause a deep cut.

“It required three stitches and will leave a permanent scar.”

Judge Parry added: “It is utterly frightening to think that a total stranger can walk up to someone else and strike him to the head in that way with a bottle.”

It was, he said, a serious wounding.

She had then approached a schoolgirl, a total stranger, and battered her in a public place.

He said: “She was 14 and begging you to stop.”

Judge Parry said the case was aggravated by her previous convictions and he warned her that she could not continue to ignore court orders and offers of help from agencies.

“You level of offending is getting more and more serious,” he said.

“The harm you are causing is getting greater and greater.”

Mr Scholz said one night in September Mr Cogley went to the gym in Chester, got the bus home and was walking near his home in Connah’s Quay High Street when “he felt a sudden blow to the right side of his head”.

The prosecutor said: “He was conscious of blood pouring from the wound that had been inflicted.”

He said the incident had taken place for no reason whatsoever and without warning.

Whaley had approached holding a wine bottle by the neck in her right hand.

She followed behind, crossed the street and once she reached the other side struck out and caused the wound.

The deep wound was stitched at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

Mr Cogley went home, told his father what had occurred and both went back out into the street.

Whaley was standing by a bench with others on the other side of the street and when confronted by the father, denied being responsible.

Police viewed CCTV from a nearby newsagents and recognised Whaley.

A short time later she was arrested in the street and was described by one officer as stumbling and shouting and by another as crying and emotional.

Cautioned she replied: “I have not done f... all.”

The incident involving the schoolgirl occurred when she approached her, punched her to the face, pulled her hair and kicked her to the legs as the girl shouted “get off me” and “I have not done anything to you”.

The victim was crying and went to run away but commendably a woman named Sarah Jones who worked in the Post Office nearby took her into her place of work.

They tried to contact the local police but when they failed to do so she walked with the girl to the police station to report the matter.

When interviewed, Whaley gave a fictitious account.

On a separate occasion she had punched out at a window causing damage for no reason.

Whaley was on a suspended prison sentence for arson at the time.

Barrister Andrew Green, defending, said Whaley understood custody was inevitable.

At the time she was drunk and her mental health was in steep decline.

She was really sorry for what had happened.

On the day of the bottle attack Whaley, a young woman whose life had been blighted by instability and vulnerabilities, had been drinking heavily.

Early last year she had some stability when she was in a relationship and worked for a tree surgery business.

When that relationship ended her mental health declined and she started drinking and using drugs.

While in custody she had stabilised on her medication, she now looked far better than she had in the past, was working in the gardens at Styal Prison and that was something she would like to do on her release.

She was also doing educational courses.