A mother-of-three who left a teenager horribly scarred after a dance-floor glass attack had her grievous bodily harm conviction overturned by judges at London's Appeal Court yesterday.

June Harrison, 35, left 18-year-old Catherine Bradford needing 22 stitches in her face after a "dance-floor cat fight" ended in horror.

Harrison, of Pine Street, Seaton Burn, Newcastle, was convicted of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and sentenced to three years jail, at Newcastle Crown Court on March 14 this year.

However, Appeal Court judge, Lord Justice Clarke, yesterday quashed the conviction because of a flaw in the trial judge's summing up to the jury.

The judge, sitting with Mr Justice Burton and Sir Richard Tucker, imposed an alternative conviction for the lesser offence of Section 20 wounding and reduced Harrison's sentence to two years.

He told how Harrison - who had no previous convictions - pushed a glass into Miss Bradford's face after a Saturday night "cat fight" at the Six Mile Bridge pub, in Seaton Burn, on March 18 this year.

It left her with five wounds to her face and neck, one of which severed a blood vessel which needed six stitches.

Penny Moreland, for Harrison, had told the Appeal Court that the trial judge had wrongly taken away from the jury the option of convicting her of the lesser offence.