IT was a sickening glassing that left a young woman scarred for life and nearly robbed her of her sight.
Lacey Davison was glassed with such force that the schooner shattered on impact, sending shards spearing into the left side of her face, severing the main nerve behind her eye and leaving her with wounds requiring 57 stitches. But on Wednesday the woman responsible, Victorian Nikki Tupou, 28, avoided jail and will instead spend the next 15 months serving an intensive corrections order under house arrest. Solicitor John Anthony, for Tupou, had told Magistrate Stephen Olischlager in December that while the glassing was "extremely serious", Tupou was remorseful, unlikely to re-offend and could move to NSW to serve an ICO and home detention.
Mr Olischlager agreed and, once Tupou was deemed suitable to serve home detention in NSW, she was spared a jail term.
The pair knew each other and had been drinking at the Royal Hotel at Waratah at 8am on August 31.
