Louise Gilbert, 25, of Valnord Estate, St Peter Port, admitted assaulting two women at the party.
The court heard how the event at the Peninsula Hotel had begun at lunchtime. At about 7.30pm Gilbert could be heard shouting in the guest area. On a nearby table was a hamper with a bottle in it. She swiped the hamper off the table on to the floor and began waving the bottle around.
She was told by someone to stop but continued swinging the bottle. When the first victim tried to grab her wrist to pull the bottle away, Gilbert pulled her hair. When the second victim told her to leave, Gilbert began walking towards the pool area. Outside, when the second victim tried to remove Gilbert’s hand from a staff member’s shirt, the defendant bit her on the hand. Gilbert then pulled a clump of hair from the second victim’s head and the two ended up on the ground in the car park.
When arrested later in a bed at the hospital’s accident and emergency department, Gilbert was confused and did not know what had happened.
In interview she said she could remember the wedding ceremony but nothing after. She recalled having two glasses of gin and lemonade plus a glass of Prosecco. The next thing she recalled was waking up in hospital.
Defending, Advocate Amy Davies said the two victims had been trying to help the staff member remove her client from the party when the incident happened outside. Her client wondered if she had been ‘spiked’ but there was no medical evidence to support this. She had consumed alcohol along with prescription cannabis. She had suffered a blow on the head later that had been nothing to do with this incident, which could explain her memory loss.
Judge Gary Perry said it was to her credit that Gilbert had not been in trouble now for four years, but she was still a violent woman, he said, and that violent person could still come out, as had happened ‘with a bang’ on this occasion.
‘This was someone’s wedding,’ he said.
‘People like to remember their weddings but instead they will be more likely to remember the woman who behaved in this way.’
The bite had left a mark on the second victim’s hand and a photograph of the hair she had pulled out was put before the court.
Gilbert was jailed for five months for that offence with three months, concurrent, for the assault on her first victim.