A MOTHER convicted of a vicious attack in a nightclub still considers herself to be a victim, a court has heard.

But a judge told Kelly Waters, from Erith: “You are not. This was a vicious unprovoked attack.”

The 33-year-old escaped a jail sentence and was given a community order including supervision, 50 hours’ unpaid work and a curfew with tagging for six months.

Maidstone Crown Court heard how the assault left victim Karen Nell with bruising and a broken tooth.

Miss Nell was at the Air and Breathe club in Dartford, on December 9, 2005. Late in the evening she went to the toilets where she saw a woman, not Waters, who was looking for drugs.

“She was asking outside the cubicles if anybody had any coke – in her words, sniff,” said Miss Nell.

“I said to her: 'If you want to do that, then go home’. She didn’t say anything.”

The victim said she joined her friends on the dance floor. Waters went on to the floor and danced in the middle of them.

Miss Nell described how Waters grabbed her arm and hair and pulled her to the floor.

“She had a bottle in her hand and was trying to hit it into my face,” she said. “The bottle made contact with my mouth. It knocked half of my front tooth out.”

Waters, of Riverdale Road, Erith, denied assault causing actual bodily harm but was convicted. Judge Jeremy Carey told her that the jury had “entirely appropriately” disbelieved her defence.

He told Waters when passing sentence last Friday: “You were convicted on the clearest evidence. It was an ugly incident where you set about the victim when drunk.”