A WOMAN glassed her partner’s ex-lover at a Cowley Road bar in an unprovoked attack, a court heard.

Amber Flood, of Devereux Place, Oxford, denies one count of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

Oxford Crown Court heard at the start of her trial yesterday that the 28-year old has already admitted a lesser charge of wounding without intent but denies any intention to cause the harm.

Prosecutors told the jury panel of seven women and five men that Flood had been at Bar Aroma, Cowley Road (now called The Baron) in the early hours of February 12 last year.

CCTV footage played to the court from the outside smoking area appeared to show Flood approach her alleged victim Ellis Roper wielding a cocktail glass.

Flood is then seen to hurl the glass at the woman, prosecutors maintain, which caused a piece of glass to stay lodged in the woman’s cheek.

Taking to the witness yesterday the alleged victim told jurors that the attack had come out of nowhere.

She said: “I was not expecting it at all, I had just got the drink in my face and all the liquid that was all I remember.

“I didn’t remember the actual glass going into my cheek, it was not until I got outside that I realised; everyone was telling me and there was blood dripping everywhere.”

The woman then took a taxi to the John Radcliffe Hospital while Flood was kicked out of the club.

Miss Roper added that there had been bad blood between the pair after she had started seeing Amber’s current partner some time prior to the incident.

Text messages sent from Flood to Miss Roper in the days following the attack were also read to the court. One message read: “I want you to know that I am so, so sorry, I have never regretted anything so much in my life.”

Flood denies intending to cause grievous bodily harm and the trial - expected to last two days, continues.