A mother who stamped on a woman’s head as she lay on the street outside a pub has been jailed, after she twice defied judge’s orders to do 180 hours of unpaid work.
Charlotte Unwin, 23, kicked Chelsea Rimmer, 22, and stamped on her head outside the Blackamoor pub in Selby, North Yorkshire, in March 2022.
The victim had picked up Unwin’s mobile phone and tried to return it to her before she was subjected to the brutal attack that left her battered, bruised and suffering from anxiety.
A judge originally took an ‘exceptional course’ by giving the mother-of-one a suspended sentence on the condition that she carry out unpaid work in the community.
But Unwin failed to turn up to her probation appointments on a number of occasions and was twice brought back before Judge Simon Hickey at York Crown Court.
On the second occasion his patience finally ran out and Unwin was jailed for four months.
Judge Hickey told her: ‘I view your excuses with some scepticism. In my judgment it is not unjust to impose an immediate custodial sentence.
‘People who stamp other people, particularly young women defenceless on the ground, usually go to prison.’
Charlotte Unwin, 23, of Selby, (pictured) pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm to the woman and failure to attend unpaid work appointments on two occasions in December and January
Charlotte Unwin, 23, kicked Chelsea Rimmer, 22, (pictured) and stamped on her head outside the Blackamoor pub in Selby, North Yorkshire, in March 2022
A friend of Chelsea’s told MailOnline: ‘Unwin attacked her viciously as soon as she saw her, it was sickening and completely unprovoked, Chelsea was trying to give her back the phone she’d lost.
‘As soon as she went down she kicked her in the face and stamped on her head causing nasty marks and bruises.
‘It caused Chelsea real anxiety afterwards to the point that she didn’t want to go out any more.
‘They weren’t friends but knew each other to speak to, she will always wonder why Charlotte acted so violently.
‘Everyone expected her to go to prison for what she did, it was unbelievable that she got a suspended sentence in the first place and after that she didn’t even think the community service mattered.
‘She’s hardly paid any of the compensation she was ordered by the court to pay Chelsea. She doesn’t seem to care and the smile on her mugshot says it all. The fact she’s finally gone to jail is some consolation at least.’
Chelsea declined to comment when approached by MailOnline.
The judge had originally taken an ‘exceptional course’ in suspending a six-month prison sentence for 18 months on the condition Unwin did 15 days’ rehabilitative activities and 180 hours’ unpaid work.
But the court heard she had stopped cooperating with the probation service and had turned up for less than half her appointments.
In total, she had only attended 35 appointments out of 82.
She had provided acceptable explanations for some of the missed appointments, but no excuse at all for 19 of them.
The judge jailed her for four of the six months, deducting two months because she had completed some of his order.
A Google Street View of Finkle Street in Selby where the attack took place
The court heard how the victim fell on her back in the street while holding her mobile phone at around 2am outside the pub on Finkle Street on March 2022.
Unwin had then gone over and kicked her in the face and stamped on her head.
Police showed Unwin footage of the incident when they interviewed her and she gave no reaction to it.
Unwin, of Selby, pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm to the woman and failure to attend unpaid work appointments on two occasions in December and January, which was the second time she had breached the order.
Brooke Morrison, for the probation service, said Unwin had been given five extra days rehabilitative activities for breaching the suspended sentence conditions at a hearing in September 2023.
For Unwin, Graham Parkin said she had stopped attending after the unwanted actions of a man who had intimidated her when attending unpaid work and probation appointments.
But the judge said she had not told the probation service anything about this man.
Mr Parkin said Unwin had difficulties including post traumatic stress disorder because of things she had suffered in the past and childhood problems had led to ‘extreme behaviour’ at times.
‘She has never had a life,’ he said, adding that Unwin was now beginning to talk to those who could help her about her problems and was sorting out accommodation and family issues.
He said that she had not offended or been in trouble with the police since the incident outside the Blackamoor pub.