A WOMAN from Wrexham told a court she was left with a bloody face after she was hit in the face by a “metallic” object when she was attacked by another mother near a playground.

Jenny Roberts claimed she was set upon by Lisa Davies as the pair clashed near a children’s play area on Holt Road near Caia Park.

Ms Roberts was pushing her baby in a pram and Davies was sitting down with her 14-year-old son when trouble flared.

Barrister Matthew Curtis, prosecuting, told Mold Crown Court had been an argument between the two at a tip previously before matters came to a head on September 14.

Ms Roberts claimed she saw something “metallic” before Davies punched her in the face and to the right eye, leaving blood streaming down her face.

As her victim fell to the floor, Davies, it was claimed, shouted: “No good looking for your phone because I chucked it.”

Davies claimed she had acted in self-defence and denied using a metal implement.

Jenny Roberts told the court there had been a previous argument between the pair when she said: “She [Davies] was angry and she said she would slash me up.”

On the day in September Davies started shouting and screaming at her and Ms Roberts was convinced she had a weapon “up her sleeve”.

“She struck me to the right eye with what I believed was a blade,” she said.

Davies, 39, of Russell Grove, Wrexham, denies unlawful wounding and theft of a mobile phone.

She told the court it was Ms Roberts who had started shouting at her and there was ill feeling between her and her boyfriend, Shaun Pritchard.

She claimed Ms Roberts had threatened to have her “windows put through”.

“She [Ms Roberts] grabbed me in the face, hit me on the side of my cheekbone and bit my thumb. I retaliated and punched out four or five times, connecting two or three times,” she said.

“I know I shouldn’t have done, but I wanted to defend myself.”

The case continues.