A DRUNKEN mother smashed a glass in the face of a 70-year-old man after dancing provocatively in front of him as he stood with his wife, a court heard.

Victim John Weldon was left with permanent scars after blonde Alysia Peace threw her wine glass at him from six inches distance.

But Peace, 34, was spared prison today after Mr Weldon said he did not want her to be locked up.

Sentencing her to two years imprisonment suspended for two years, Judge Jonathan Rose told her: "I am moved by Mr Weldon because he does not seek vengeance, does not seek your detention in prison.

"The fact that he is so magnanimous impresses me hugely."

Prosecutor Duncan Ritchie told Bradford Crown Court that Mr Weldon had run the Blue Boar, in Thornton Road, Thornton, before his retirement, and on the evening of March 28 had helped out behind the bar.

Peace was drinking wine with friends in the pub and knocked over a table of drinks while dancing, and the landlord decided she was not to be served more drink.

But Mr Weldon noticed she was singing and dancing with a glass of red wine in her hand.

He had finished work and was stood next to his wife near the bar when the defendant danced up to him "thrusting her hips at him" in a sexual manner. He told her to go away but she kicked him hard in the shins. He kicked her back to try to keep her away but she took hold of his wrist, put her forehead against his and shouted abuse at him.

He pushed back with his head and removed her hand from his wrist, but Peace raised the wine glass and threw it overarm into his face, causing it to break and wine to splatter the walls and ceiling.

Customers intervened and Peace ran from the pub. She was arrested after attending a police station a few days later.

Mr Weldon, who attended court, suffered serious cuts to his face which needed stitching and had been left with scars, which Judge Rose asked to see close up. The victim also had an angina attack at hospital.

Peace, of Chapel Terrace, Thornton, pleaded guilty to wounding.

Her solicitor advocate, Anne-Marie Hutton, said her client had no previous convictions and it had been an isolated incident involving a single blow.

Miss Hutton said Peace, the mother of a teenage son, was the primary carer for dependant relatives.

Judge Rose told Peace that Mr Weldon had every right not to be disturbed by "the sort of drunken loutish behaviour you displayed that night".

He said she had acted in a "salacious and sexual manner".

Judge Rose said a prison sentence was called for, but he was aware she had obligations to other people. He ordered her to pay £350 compensation to Mr Weldon, made her subject of a six-month electronically monitored curfew and a two-year exclusion order banning her from the Blue Boar.

After the case, Mr Weldon told the Telegraph & Argus: "I am glad it is all over and that justice has been done and everybody can now get on with their lives."