By Jason Evans

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A woman tried to put out a lit cigarette on her partner’s head before glassing him in the face, a court has heard. Denise Raymond-Jones attacked her boyfriend after accusing him of being unfaithful to her following a Christmas party. Swansea Crown Court heard the victim has been left with a permanent scar as a result of the attack and he said the assault had “completely changed” his life. The defendant’s barrister said her 51-year-old client was remorseful for her actions. Georgia Donohue, prosecuting, told the court that on December 21, 2023, Raymond-Jones picked up her partner after he had attended a night out with colleagues and they both drove home. Back at the house an argument developed when the defendant started accusing her boyfriend of having an affair and she demanded he show her pictures of the works do he had been at to prove who he had been with. The court heard the partner contacted one of his colleagues and got pictures of the Christmas get-together but the photographic evidence did not satisfy the defendant. The prosecutor said Raymond-Jones began kicking her partner and then attempted to put out a lighted cigarette on his head while telling him she was going to “****ing burn him”. The man was able to “swat away” her attempts to stub out the cigarette. For the latest court stories sign up to our crime newsletter . The court heard the defendant then began trying to “antagonise” her partner by telling him she had slept with other men in their bed before swinging the glass of wine she was holding towards his neck, causing the glass to smash. The court heard the man started “bleeding profusely” from a facial wound and went into the bathroom where he tried to staunch the flow of blood while the defendant tried, unsuccessfully, to force her way into the room. The injured man put plasters on his wound and the couple slept in separate rooms that night. The prosecutor said the following day the man went to see his GP and, due to the depth of the wound, was told to go to hospital. At Prince Phillip Hospital in Llanelli medics cleaned and stitched a 4cm-long full-thickness laceration to his jaw. The court heard doctors concluded the wound had been caused by “trauma from a sharp or jagged item”. The matter was reported to police on December 22 and Raymond-Jones was arrested on January 12 the following year. During a police interview the defendant claimed she had been acting in self-defence, claiming her partner had kicked and punched her, racially abused her, and threatened to kill her. She claimed she had been holding a glass of red wine which had made contact with her partner when she tried to push him off her. In an impact statement which was read to the court by the prosecution barrister, the victim said he had loved Raymond-Jones and had planned to marry her and said that the events of the night in question had “completely changed my life”. He said for a long time after the assault he struggled to sleep which affected his work and led to him stepping down from his managerial role. He said he rarely leaves the house other than to walk his dog, and he said the visible scar on his face was a “constant reminder” of what had happened. Denise Raymond-Jones, of Gwynfor Road, Townhill, Swansea , had previously pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding when she appeared in the dock for sentencing. She has one conviction for two offences of battery from 2016 – both batteries relate to an incident in a bar when the defendant punched a woman in the face and pulled a clump of her hair our, and then struck a member of door staff in the face with a glass while being escorted from the premises. She was given a community order for those matters. Emily Bennett, for Raymond-Jones, said the defendant had grown up in Neath where she experienced racism, and said those childhood experiences had helped to form the person she became. She said her client had enjoyed a career in marketing before a “significant deterioration” in her mental health and a subsequent diagnosis of unstable emotional personality disorder. The barrister said the grandmother-of-three was remorseful for actions on the night in question, and said references submitted to the court from family members and members of the church the defendant attends spoke to her character and her caring responsibilities. Judge Catherine Richards told the defendant she had committed a serious offence, and said it was one aggravated by its domestic context. The judge said Raymond-Jones’ “complex mental health issues” she had come to the conclusion that immediate imprisonment would be “very destabilising and disproportionate”. With a one-sixth discount for her guilty plea Raymond-Jones was sentenced to 15 months in prison suspended for 18 months and was ordered to complete a rehabilitation course. She was also made the subject of a 12-month restraining order banning her from contacting her now ex-partner.