A mother-of-three is today behind bars after being convicted of smashing a love rival in the face with a glass.

Wendy Ingemann left Tanya Darrell permanently scarred after breaking the goblet on her right cheek in Splash nightclub last February. A second blow behind Ms Darrell's ear with the same weapon fractured her skull and almost amputated her earlobe.

During a Supreme Court trial lasting nine days, Ingemann, 37, claimed that all she had done was punch Ms Darrell.

She claimed that this came after a yearlong campaign of harassment at Ms Darrell's hands over a man called Tokia Russell – whom they had both been involved with – and who is the father of Ms Darrell's child.

She alleged in her evidence that this history of bad feeling culminated in Ms Darrell shouting "whore" and throwing a drink over her 17-year-old daughter Shante Ingemann. She said her response was to push her daughter out of the way and punch Ms Darrell.

However, the nine women and two men of the jury accepted yesterday that Ingemann was responsible for glassing Ms Darrell in the face, convicting her by a unanimous verdict of assault causing grievous body harm.

The jury further convicted the defendant, of Wellington Slip Road, St. George's, of possessing a glass goblet as an offensive weapon. The goblet was found by the Police outside the now-defunct nightclub in Bermudiana Road.

DNA analysis later showed that blood on Ingemann's shawl matched Ms Darrell's DNA, and blood on the shawl and broken glass matched Ingemann's DNA.

The jury cleared Ingemann of a third charge of violently resisting arrest after the incident.

The defendant, a former bartender at the St. George's Cricket Club and Bootsie's comedy club stared directly ahead as the verdicts were delivered. However, the sound of crying emanated from the public gallery where her supporters were seated.

Prosecutor Robert Welling was successful in asking Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves to reject an application for bail from Ingemann's lawyer Elizabeth Christopher.

"Given the nature of this conviction a custodial sentence is inevitable. Feelings are running very high and I'm not sure that a period of bail prior to sentencing would be of any benefit to anybody," he explained.

Ms Darrell gathered with her supporters to watch Ingemann being taken away in a prison van – shouting "goodbye" repeatedly and waving at the van as it got stuck in traffic on Church Street.

During her evidence to the trial, Ms Darrell, a Marine and Ports worker from Hamilton Parish, told the jury she'd known Ingemann for around 25 years. She said that on the night in question she'd seen Shante Ingemann cursing and screaming in her direction in Splash.

"As she got closer to me I could hear what she was saying – that I'm just jealous cos her mother f****d my man. She was right in front of my face, I would say inches." said Ms Darrell, describing Wendy Ingemann as "looking irate".

"Shante Ingemann pointed in my face at this point and I physically moved her hand away out of my face. I told her she was a little girl and she needed to get away from me," said Ms Darrell. Then, she said, Wendy Ingemann threw the remains of the wine in her glass in her face with her left hand.

"At the same time she came around and hit me in the face with the glass on the right side of my face," she told the court, claiming she did nothing to justify this.

Next, she said, she went down to the ground bent over as she realised that she had been hit with the glass, which broke on her face. As she stood up, she said, she felt another blow behind her left ear although she did not see who delivered it.

The nightclub had security cameras, and the jury heard from Ingemann how she believed her name would be cleared if footage was produced of the incident.

However, no tape was produced for the jury to view, with Mr. Welling explaining after the verdict that this was because the camera was pointing in the wrong direction at the time.

Mr. Justice Greaves ordered a pre-sentence report on Ingemann, who has no previous convictions, and remanded her into custody until sentencing at a later date.

Ms Darrell declined to comment after the verdict.