A Warwick woman left another woman needing stitches in a facial wound following an early morning attack in a Hamilton bar.

Tishae Davis, 22, claimed the victim, Renee Santucci, had instigated the fight by spitting on her, but prosecutor Carrington Mahoney said Davis’ own Twitter postings suggested it had been an unprovoked assault.

Mr Mahoney told the court that at around 2.45am on July 7, Ms Santucci had visited The Beach on Front Street with her cousins. She had gone to the rest room and, when emerging, saw the defendant across the bar pointing at her and saying: “Is that her?”

Davis then approached Ms Santucci and began yelling at her. Ms Santucci turned away, but Davis shoved her from behind. Davis then struck the victim in the face, causing her to bleed from her lip.

The victim and her cousins left the bar, walking to the Hamilton Police Station to file a report. Ms Santucci was later taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital where she received two stitches for the injury to her face.

Appearing in Magistrates’ Court this morning, Davis pleaded guilty to a single charge of assault saying it was her first offence and she would not make the same mistake again.

“I was spat on,” she claimed. “It was the heat of the moment. She spat on me and so I hit her.”

However, Mr Mahoney, responded that version of events described by the Crown was based not only on the victim’s story, but also on a series of Twitter posts made by Davis herself on the morning of the attack.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner told Davis that based on what she had told the court she could pursue the defence of self-defence, but Davis chose to maintain her guilty plea.

Mr Warner adjourned the matter until next month so a social inquiry report can be carried out before sentencing. Until then, he released the defendant on bail.