A mother who stamped on a woman’s head as she lay on the street outside a pub has been jailed, after she twice defied judge’s orders to do 180 hours of unpaid work.
Charlotte Unwin, 23, kicked her victim in the face and stamped on her head in the horrific attack outside the Blackamoor pub in Selby, North Yorkshire, in March 2022.
A judge originally took an ‘exceptional course’ by giving the mother-of-one a suspended sentence on the condition that she carry out unpaid work in the community.
But Unwin failed to turn up on 53 occasions and was twice brought back before Judge Simon Hickey at York Crown Court.
On the second occasion his patience finally ran out and Unwin was jailed for four months.
Judge Hickey told her: ‘I view your excuses with some skepticism. In my judgement it is not unjust to impose an immediate custodial sentence.
‘People who stamp other people, particularly young women defenceless on the ground, usually go to prison.’
He had originally taken an ‘exceptional course’ in suspending a six-month prison sentence for 18 months on the condition she did 15 days’ rehabilitative activities and 180 hours’ unpaid work.
But the court heard she had stopped cooperating with the probation service and had turned up for less than half her appointments.
In total, she had only attended 35 appointments out of 82.
She had provided acceptable explanations for some of the missed appointments, but no excuse at all for 19 of them.
The judge jailed her for four of the six months, deducting two months because she had completed some of his order.
The court heard how the victim fell on her back in the street while holding her mobile phone at around 2am outside the pub on Finkle Street on March 2022.
Unwin had then gone over and kicked her in the face and stamped on her head.
Police showed Unwin footage of the incident when they interviewed her and she gave no reaction to it.
Unwin, of Selby, pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm to the woman and failure to attend unpaid work appointments on two occasions in December and January, which was the second time she had breached the order.
Brooke Morrison, for the probation service, said Unwin had been given five extra days rehabilitative activities for breaching the suspended sentence conditions at a hearing in September 2023.
For Unwin, Graham Parkin said she had stopped attending after the unwanted actions of a man who had intimidated her when attending unpaid work and probation appointments.
But the judge said she had not told the probation service anything about this man.
Mr Parkin said Unwin had difficulties including post traumatic stress disorder because of things she had suffered in the past and childhood problems had led to ‘extreme behaviour’ at times.
‘She has never had a life,’ he said, adding that Unwin was now beginning to talk to those who could help her about her problems and was sorting out accommodation and family issues.
He said that she had not offended or been in trouble with the police since the incident outside the Blackamoor pub.