A WOMAN trashed a young mum's home with baked beans, curry sauce, nail varnish and tanning cream, a court heard.


Mary Stokes, aged 24, of Season House, Summer Street, Stroud, admitted burglary and also pleaded guilty to assaulting a friend of the victim and another woman and possessing a knife.


She was jailed for 20 months at Gloucester Crown Court on Friday.
Prosecutor Julian Kesner said there had been an incident between Stokes and the young mum, Charllie Shill, shortly before the burglary
on July 22 last year.


"Everything in her bedroom and her baby son's bedroom and the kitchen had been damaged," he said.


Nail varnish was poured on her son's cot and pushchair and baked beans thrown around the flat, he added.


A TV was thrown across the room and fake tanning cream emptied over clothes and poured around the premises.


Her son's birthday presents from the week before had been thrown around and a mirror put in a carrier bag and smashed.


Every plate and glass was smashed, the oven door broken and curry sauce smeared over walls, ceilings and windows.


A camera containing pictures of the son's birthday from the week before was stolen.


Two days later, Ms Shill and a friend, Holly Pegler, went to Stokes' home to talk about the incident.


Stokes assaulted Ms Pegler, punching her several times, the court heard.
A few days later, Stokes assaulted the landlady of the Duke of York pub in Stroud, Lucy Kent, who had had a run in with the defendant.


The defendant pushed Ms Kent to the ground in Bisley Road and made threats about her daughter, with whom she had fallen out, before punching and scratching her and pulling her hair.


"Lucy bit the defendant's elbow in self-defence," said Mr Kesner.


"This got the defendant off her - but only for a minute because she then started to kick Ms Kent."


A clump of Ms Kent's hair was pulled out and she was left with scratches, a swollen cheek, bruises and grazes.


Stokes then produced a knife and said: "I'm going to kill your daughter."
Sarah Jenkins, for Stokes, said her client came from a travelling family in Bolton.


Stokes, she said, had gone to Ms Shill's home to talk about an incident in the pub which had left her 'ashamed and angry'.


"When she got there the door was unlocked and her feelings got the better of her," she said.


Ms Jenkins said the subsequent offences were fuelled by her feelings of anger and isolation that she had been 'trying to make a bit of a name for herself'.


Stokes was jailed for 14 months for burglary, two months consecutively for assaulting Ms Pegler, two months consecutive for assaulting the pub landlady and another two months consecutive for having the knife.