Teenager jailed for bottle-throwing killing

A British teenager who killed a mother-of-three after he threw a bottle into a pub and a shard of glass severed his victim’s jugular vein, was today jailed for four-and-a-half years.

Drunken Neil McNulty, 19, from Heywood, Greater Manchester, was refused entry by door staff and in a temper hurled the bottle through the door.

A doorman ducked the missile, which shattered on impact in the pub.

In an “incredible mishap” a shard of glass flew into the neck of mother-of-three Emma O’Kane.

The 27-year-old part-time barmaid at the Queen Anne Hotel in Heywood, Greater Manchester, bled to death as the cut severed her jugular vein and an artery.

Ms O’Kane was off-duty at the time of the incident at about 2am on December 27 as she celebrated the birthday of her partner, Michael Shepherd, 38, who she planned to marry.

He battled to save her as she lay bleeding to death.

Today at Manchester Crown Court, Judge Michael Henshell told McNulty he would live with the pain of what he did for the rest of his life.