Grandmother severed vein in man's neck after she swung glass at him

A grandmother who severed a vein in a man's neck after she swung a glass at him has been given a suspended sentence on condition she pay €3,000 as a token of remorse.

Sarah English (59) believed that Paul Clarke had ridiculed her late husband and deceased son while the pair were drinking in the house of a mutual friend. The glass shattered cutting the victim's head and face and slicing a vein in his neck.