A MOTHER-of-four who glassed a former friend after the victim claimed her brother had raped her has been jailed for 18 months.

Louise Sonnex, aged 31, struck mother-of-two Angela Kelly with a pint glass after threatening to open her up "like a can of beans".

Sonnex's friend Sinead O'Sullivan, aged 18, was jailed for 10 months for her part in the attack.

The vicious assault began with Miss Kelly, 37, claiming Sonnex's brother Bernard had raped her four years earlier.

The Old Bailey heard on October 13 how Sonnex and Sullivan carried out the attack at the Walpole Pub in New Cross in July last year.

Miss Kelly was knocked to the ground and was later treated for cuts to the face.

Sonnex insisted Miss Kelly started the row and said: "She said my brother is a rapist and he raped her four years ago."

Defence lawyer Rhiannor Crimmins said the trauma of a full-term stillbirth could have caused her to overreact.

She said: "It may be this had some impact on her ability to regulate her state of mind."

Sonnex, of New King Street, Deptford, and O'Sullivan, of Pattender Road, Catford, were both convicted of unlawful wounding.