iStockA woman left a 16-year-old boy needing life-saving surgery after a bottle attack.
Paula Macaulay struck the teenager in the neck during the assault in Glasgow city centre in August 2023.
The 42-year-old was found with part of the broken bottle as well as glass fragments on her clothes when she was later held by police.
Macaulay had been due to stand trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
But she instead pleaded guilty via her lawyer to attempted murder while acting under provocation.
She faces a lengthy jail term when she is sentenced next month.
The victim and a number of friends had been out on the evening of August 4, 2023.
They ended up in the company of Macaulay and a male associate before leaving.
The group again met the pair in the city’s Osborne Street where the boy was in an “altercation” with Macaulay’s friend.
Prosecutor Gareth Reid said Macaulay got involved and a gin bottle she had ended up smashed.
One of the boy’s group grabbed the woman by the hair to try and get her off her friend.
Mr Reid then told the court: “Macaulay struck the boy on the neck with the broken bottle.
“The boy realised that he was bleeding and slowly fell to the floor.”
The incident was captured on CCTV but from a distance away.
Macaulay fled the scene as the victim’s friends flagged down passing British Transport police officers for help.
An ambulance was then called and he was rushed to hospital.
There was “profuse bleeding” to a wound on the right side of his neck which required an immediate operation.
Mr Reid: “The injuries sustained will leave permanent scarring. The surgeon stated that, but for medical intervention, his life would have been in danger due to the bleeding.”
Macaulay was found by police having been clocked outside a post office in nearby Glassford Street.
She claimed the others had been “jumping” on her male friend and that she had also been assaulted including having food chucked at her.
Macaulay had a red mark and an abrasion after being checked by a medic.
The court heard she had previous convictions but for lower-level sheriff and justice of the peace court cases.
She had been on bail but was remanded in custody by judge Lord Young.
Sentencing was deferred for reports until August 7 in Edinburgh.
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