Law student hurled glass in Notts stabbing incident

Gina Bush was playing dominoes with her then boyfriend and his mother in the Joseph Else Wetherspoons pub, off Market Square, at around 11pm, on July 20, last year, said prosecutor Dawn Pritchard.

After three men began arguing with the group, Bush threw a drink over one of them.

"He described it as blinding him," said Ms Pritchard. "At first he thought it was acid and then later realised it was Sambuca."

A disturbance was sparked in the doorway and on the pavement outside the pub and a 19-year-old man was later taken to the Queen's Medical Centre after sustaining a stab wound to his stomach.

Thomas Welshman, mitigating, said her involvement was limited and it was an "entirely out-of-character mistake."

He said Bush, who has no previous convictions, was reacting to "unpleasant and frightening remarks."

The court heard the scholarship student, in the last year of her studies at Nottingham Trent University, hopes to practise law after she graduates.

Bush, 22, of Goldsmith Street, Nottingham, pleaded guilty to affray, on November 12.

On Wednesay, Recorder Stuart Sprawson said her role in the affray was limited.

He added: "What impact this conviction will have on your ability to become a solicitor or a barrister, I do not know."

He imposed a 12 month community order with 80 hours of unpaid work.

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