Teen hairdresser claims glass face-smash was accidental

By Cara Sulieman

A HAIRDRESSER who smashed another girl in the face with a glass on a nightclub dancefloor claimed she only meant to pour a drink over her head.

Ashleigh Drysdale, 17, was in Stereo nightclub in Edinburgh when Lisa Golder bumped in to one her friends.

The pair started arguing and Drysdale went to throw her drink over 20-year-old Ms Golder.

Instead she let go of the glass and it smashed in the victim’s face, leaving her needing eight stitches and a permanently scarred.

Today at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, Drysdale pled guilty to assaulting Ms Golder to her injury and permanent disfigurement on January 31 this year.

Blood on the dancefloor as court worker is attacked

By Michael MacLeod

A SHERIFF Court staff night out turned sour when a jealous clubber smashed a glass over a woman’s head for kissing her boyfriend on the dancefloor.

Window-dresser Emma McCulloch, 20, saw red when her boyfriend kissed a woman twice her age.

She stormed across the dancefloor in Edinburgh’s trendy Shanghai nightclub and poured her drink over Lorraine Cairns’ head.

Before Miss Cairns had a chance to explain that she had only got a peck on the cheek, McCulloch walked away and threw the empty glass over her shoulder, shattering on the Sheriff Clerk office worker’s head.

Glass face smash victim ‘too scared’ to go out

By Andrea McCallum

A CARER left scarred after a drunken thug smashed a glass into his face says he is now too scared to go out to the pub.

George Cowe, 39, was left with scars to his face after unemployed Barry Rutherford launched the unprovoked attack in a pub.

Now George says his life has been affected to the point where his family fear for his safety every time he leaves his home in Eskview Avenue, Musselburgh.

He said: “I don’t go out any more, really, and I have only been out once since the incident.