A mother who stamped on the head of a woman lying on the street outside a pub has been jailed after she twice defied judge orders to carry out 180 hours of unpaid work.
Charlotte Unwin, 23, kicked her victim in the face and stomped on her head in the horrific attack outside the Blackamoor pub in Selby, North Yorkshire, in March 2022.
Originally, a judge took an “exceptional course” by giving the mother-of-one a suspended sentence on the condition that she perform unpaid work in the community.
But Unwin failed to appear on 53 occasions and was twice brought before Judge Simon Hickey at York Crown Court.
On the second occasion his patience finally ran out and Unwin was imprisoned for four months.
Judge Hickey told him: ‘I view your excuses with some skepticism. In my opinion, it is not unfair to impose an immediate custodial sentence.
“People who trample other people, especially defenseless young women on the ground, often go to prison.”
Charlotte Unwin, 23, from Selby, (pictured) pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm to the woman and failing to attend unpaid work appointments on two occasions in December and January.
He had originally taken an “exceptional course” by suspending a six-month prison sentence for 18 months on condition he carried out 15 days of rehabilitation activities and 180 hours of unpaid work.
But the court heard she had stopped co-operating with the probation service and had attended less than half of her appointments.
In total, he had only attended 35 appointments out of 82.
He had given acceptable explanations for some of the missed appointments, but no excuse for 19 of them.
The judge jailed her for four of the six months, deducting two months because she had complied with part of his order.
The court heard how the victim fell on his back in the street while holding his mobile phone at around 2am outside the pub on Finkle Street in March 2022.
Unwin then walked up, kicked him in the face and stomped on his head.
Police showed Unwin footage of the incident when they interviewed her and she did not react.
A Google Street view of Finkle Street in Selby, where the attack took place.
Unwin, of Selby, pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm to the woman and failing to attend unpaid work appointments on two occasions in December and January, which was the second time he had breached the order.
Brooke Morrison, of the probation service, said Unwin had been granted an additional five days of rehabilitation activities for breaching the conditions of his suspended sentence at a hearing in September 2023.
For Unwin, Graham Parkin said she had stopped attending after the unwanted actions of a man who had intimidated her when she attended unpaid work and probation appointments.
But the judge said she had not told the probation service anything about this man.
Parkin said Unwin had difficulties, including post-traumatic stress disorder, because of things she had suffered in the past and that childhood problems had led her to “extreme behavior” at times.
“She’s never had a life,” he said, adding that Unwin was now starting to talk to those who could help her about her problems and was sorting out housing and family issues.
He said she had not caused any offense or been in trouble with police since the incident outside the Blackamoor pub.
