A young mother who twice attacked an Asian woman with a bottle after calling her a "paki" has escaped a prison sentence.

Lyndsay Paterson, 18, has been electronically tagged and ordered to abide by a curfew for six months after admitting racially aggravated wounding.

Paterson, of The Fairway, Banbury, was also given a two-year Community Rehabilitation Order and told to pay £200 compensation to her victim after admitting two charges of assault by beating.

Oxford Crown Court heard on November 19 that the mother-of-one first attacked Sukhvir Purewal, 22, at The Sound Exchange nightclub in Banbury on November 1, 2001.

Miss Purewal was in the toilet when Paterson, who was 17 at the time, called her a "paki" and hit her over the head with a glass bottle.

In the second attack on November 17, Miss Purewal was repeatedly hit over the head with a bottle by Paterson and two other women outside the nightclub.

Sentencing Paterson, Judge Julian Hall warned her that she had narrowly escaped a jail term of two years. He ordered her to stay at home between 8pm and 2am, Thursday to Sunday.