found him guilty yesterday of brutally "glassing'' a woman in the face in a Pembroke nightclub.

Wilson, 55, was convicted by a majority of Supreme Court jurors of wounding Pauline O'Connor with intent to do grievous bodily harm.

He was remanded in custody over the weekend and will appear on Monday for sentencing.

The maximum term of imprisonment for the offence is 10 years, but sentences tend to be between four and eight years. The jury found that Wilson deliberately smashed the thick bottomed glass in Ms O'Connor's face in the Spinning Wheel Nightclub in Court Street on January 27, breaking her nose and causing a deep cut from just below her eye to her upper lip.

Wilson, of Mount Hill, Pembroke, denied the charge and appeared to show some consternation when the verdict was read out. Ms O'Connor, 39, of Pembroke, was comforted by family and friends as she left the court but refused to comment.

The four man, eight woman jury heard that Wilson smashed Ms O'Connor in the face with the heavy glass after an earlier row in which he kept shouting at her "don't you f***ing know me?''.

Ms O'Connor said she swore back at Wilson and slapped him away. The pair were separated by Ms O'Connor's sister Diane Simpson.

Wilson found guilty She said that between 20 minutes and half an hour later Wilson approached her and "all of a sudden and unexpectedly'' she felt pain "like a thousand needles'' and was blinded by blood from her wound.

When she was able to focus, she saw glass on the floor and ran out the door.

She told the court: "I couldn't believe he would do something like that just because I didn't know who he was''.

Wilson, who had been drinking heavily, claimed Ms O'Connor was "extra bullish'' and hit him on the upside of the head.

"I reacted with a drink in my hand with no intention of hitting her. If I did it I am very sorry. It wasn't intentional.'' His lawyer Mark Pettingill said "at the very highest,'' the Crown had proven that grievous bodily harm had been committed and that Wilson may have carried out the attack.

But because his client was drunk, the jury could not be sure that Wilson had intentionally wounded Ms O'Connor.

Summing up yesterday, Crown prosecutor Charmaine Smith said: "Mr. Wilson admitted having this solid rock glass in his hand.

"Can a solid rock glass cause these injuries? How did Mr. Wilson get the cuts on his hand that he has described? How did the glass break? "Mr. Wilson gave evidence that there was no glass at his feet. Miss O'Connor saw glass at her feet. We say this is significant.

"Mr. Wilson said he did not know the outcome. I invite you to accept that Ms O'Connor can give you the outcome.

"It is the Crown's position that there is only one finding you can make in this matter after consideration of these issues and that is that Mr. Wilson is guilty of the offence as charged.'' Mr. Pettingill said: "The test is not `I think he is guilty,' it is `I am sure he is guilty'.

"At the very highest, the Crown has proved the case that there was GBH and that Mr. Wilson may have caused it. But intention is not proven.

"Perhaps it was an accident that the glass slipped out of his hand. You could consider that Mr. Wilson had been out for more than a few drinks and that Mr.

Wilson was drunk.

"The issue is admitting to you that there is drunkenness here. It is the real evidence in this case, it is not disputed. In law, voluntary intoxication affects the charge of intent because of the effect on the mind.'' Assistant Justice Charles Etta-Simmons told the jury: "If you determine the defendant did not intend, and reacted to her slapping, it is open to you that he did it accidentally and you must acquit.

"If you think he was so drunk he did not intend to cause GBH, you must acquit. If you are sure, despite the drinking, that he intended, then this part of the case is proven.''