A young woman smashed a glass bottle in a reveller's face on the dance floor of a nightclub, a court heard.

Susana De La Cruz Brangman, 23, admitted the unlawful wounding of Lurlene Fisher in an incident in the Spring Gardens club in Pembroke.

Magistrates Court heard yesterday how Brangman went onto the dance floor, poured beer over the victim and then struck her with a glass bottle on Saturday, October 14, at about 12.40 a.m.

Ms Fisher ? who did not know Brangman ? was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, the court was told, where she received stitches for a cut to her forehead.

After admitting the offence, Brangman, from South Shore Road, Southampton, told Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner she had acted in self defence.

Following a discussion over legal rules, Mr. Warner advised Brangman to speak to a lawyer and adjourned the case for sentencing.

Crown counsel Carrington Mahoney told the court Ms Fisher was visiting Spring Gardens with relatives.

Mr. Mahoney said: "Ms Fisher went to the dance floor for a dance. The defendant, who had never seen her before, threw beer in her face from a Heineken bottle she was drinking.

"She took the bottle and struck Ms Fisher in the face with it."

Mr. Mahoney said the victim then put her hand up to her face to check the wound.

"Her hand was covered with blood," he said. "Then her forehead burst open with blood pouring from it. She was transferred to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital."

After receiving stitches, Ms Fisher was discharged from hospital.

Brangman, who is originally from the Dominican Republic but moved to Bermuda four years ago and is married to a Bermudian, was arrested after Ms Fisher made a statement to Police.

When Mr. Warner asked Brangman if she had anything to say yesterday, she replied: "I did it in self defence. I do not want to say anything else."

Duty defence lawyer Larry Scott then asked if he could explain to Brangman that she could not admit unlawful wounding and also claim self defence. However, Brangman told Mr. Warner she could not understand what was being said in court.

Mr. Warner replied: "I'm trying to allocate for the possibility that you don't understand what I'm saying, but I'm not satisfied that is the case. You want to give me a hard time, but you picked the wrong person to give a hard time to."

Adjourning the case to January 15 for sentencing, he added: "It's a serious offence, commonly referred to as glassing with a bottle. I strongly recommend you get some sort of legal representation when you come back.