Benefits cheat bride who scarred woman for life with her stiletto heels in vicious nightclub brawl avoids jail

• Emma Blackmore, 43, launched the attack on a fellow clubber during a night out

A benefits cheat bride who left a woman permanently scarred in a nightclub brawl after hitting her three times with stiletto heels has avoided jail. 

Emma Blackmore, 43, launched the attack on a fellow clubber during a night out drinking on the dance floor at the Out nightclub in Pembroke, Wales. 

A court heard she smashed the stiletto into the victim’s face and head three times, avoiding her eye by just an inch.

The nightclub attack came six years after Blackmore avoided a prison sentence for swindling £30,000 by pretending she was a jilted bride.

She posed as a dumped woman to fiddle benefits after claiming her new husband Wayne had walked out on her after the honeymoon.

She received a 12 months sentence suspended for 18 months for the benefits scam in 2017.

Blackmore has now been handed an 18 month sentence suspended for two years for the stiletto attack in January this year. 

Emma Blackmore, 43, launched the attack on a fellow clubber at the Out nightclub in Pembroke, Wales

Emma Blackmore with her husband Wayne on their wedding day

Prosecutor Brian Simpson said Blackmore’s sister became involved in an altercation in the club and the victim was trying to separate the parties.

Mr Simpson said Blackmore grabbed the Good Samaritan by the hair and then hit her three times with the high heel shoe.

She was thrown out of the club after and security staff rushed over to break up the brawl – leaving one female bouncer with a cut.

Swansea Crown Court heard Blackmore was identified by staff using CCTV and police officers went to her house just hours later.

She admitted hitting the woman with the shoes and said she was carrying them because her feet were hurting.

Blackmore told officers she was ‘seeing red’ when she was told somebody had spat at her husband.

Blackmore, of Monkton, Pembroke, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding and to assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

She has a previous conviction for fraud from 2017 for offending involving dishonest benefit claims.

In a victim impact statement, the woman said the scar on her forehead had left her feeling that ‘everyone is looking at me and talking about me’.

Swansea Crown Court heard Blackmore was identified by staff using CCTV and police officers went to her house just hours later

Blackmore told officers she was ‘seeing red’ when she was told somebody had spat at her husband

Defending David Singh said it was an ‘extremely unpleasant, appalling act’ and Blackmore had risked her job and her ability to provide care for her son who has additional needs.

Judge Recorder Benjamin Blakemore said Blakemore ‘decided to get involved’ in a fight in the club and delivered three blows ‘with significant force.’

He said her actions had been ‘ridiculously reckless’ after the victim could have lost an eye if the heel landed an inch each side from the middle of the forehead.

Blackmore was handed an 18 month sentence suspended for two years and ordered to carry out 280 hours of unpaid work.

She must also complete a rehabilitation course focusing on thinking skills and alcohol misuse and pay her victim £800 compensation.

Blackmore was handed an 18 month sentence suspended for two years and ordered to carry out 280 hours of unpaid work

The judge told the defendant: ‘I am prepared to suspend this sentence principally for your son, not you.’

The sentence comes after Blackmore was caught out in the benefits scam after marrying husband Wayne on June 16, 2012.

She claimed to officials from the Department of Work and Pensions to have split in July.

But she was caught out in December that year when Wayne posted on Facebook: ‘I love my wife all the world she is the best x x x’

The court heard she received £29,569 in benefits she was not been entitled to before she admitted fraud.

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