Young Cork mother weeps as she is jailed for attack that left woman's face scarred for life

The defendant told the court today: "No words can express how sorry I am for what I done to you. I will have to live with that for the rest of my life."

The judge imposed a five-and-a-half-year sentence with the last three-and-a-half years suspended. File picture: Larry Cummins

A young mother who is trying to turn her life around since carrying out a serious attack on a young woman in Cork city - slashing her extensively across the face - has been jailed for two years.

20-year-old Ava Collins of Owenabue Close, Togher, Cork, who now has a five-month-old son since her sentencing was adjourned earlier this year at Cork Circuit Criminal Court for the serious assault and robbery, wept as she was taken into custody to start her prison sentence.