A PROLIFIC offender threw a glass at a woman, cutting her forehead, just days after an incident with her daughter.

David McGuigan was at the King of Wessex pub, in Kings Furlong, on October 10, last year, when he spotted victim Lisa Charlton and her daughters.

A week before McGuigan had been involved in an incident with one of Ms Charlton’s daughters, Amber, and was kicking her front door and accused her of being a snitch.

Whilst at the pub the 32-year-old attempted to approach Amber to talk about what happened.

Prosecuting, Christopher Jenkins told Winchester Crown Court on Friday that McGuigan was drunk, adding: “They refused to engage with him in any discussions despite repeated attempts.”

Amber left the pub with her friend to get something to eat, McGuigan followed her, but she continued to ignore him.

He tried to talk to Ms Charlton about the incident and there was a tussle, he then threw a pint glass that he taken from inside the pub.

The glass hit Ms Charlton on the forehead and she needed hospital treatment for five-centimetre wounds.

Mr Jenkins said that in a victim impact statement, Ms Charlton said the offence has “left her feeling nervous and jumpy as well as nervous and vulnerable that Mr McGuigan might visit her house”.

McGuigan pleaded guilty in June to assault occasioning actual bodily harm, but in a basis of plea said he was not aiming the glass at Ms Charlton.

The court heard that McGuigan has 32 convictions for 52 offences including assault on an emergency worker and assault occasioning grievous bodily harm.

In mitigation, Aleks Lloyd said that the incident was an “overreaction” on McGuigan’s part.

Mr Lloyd told the court that his client has had a “difficult and chequered history” but is now making changes in his life and is now sober and is on the waiting is list for accommodation.

In sentencing him, Recorder Jane Rowley said that McGuigan has a “propensity for violence”, adding: “Your offending is so serious that neither a fine or a community order can be justified”.

McGuigan, of New Road, Basingstoke, was jailed for 40 weeks.