A woman growled like a dog and smashed a glass over her friend’s head before trying to convince detectives he injured himself.

Linda Chapman garrotted Andrew Evans while impersonating a hound after their group binged on rum in flats in Chartham, near Canterbury.

The 55-year-old then smashed a glass over the left side of her victim’s head, causing a 2cm wound.

But Chapman then told officers he had glassed himself at the gathering at the Pomfret Road property as the atmosphere soured.

She admitted her actions before trial and was sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court on Friday.

Handing down a suspended sentence, Judge Simon Taylor KC labelled Chapman’s behaviour “quite bizarre”.

“You grabbed him around the throat and began growling like a dog,” he added.

“The indiscriminate use of a glass on a person’s face can cause blindness or permanent facial disfigurement.”

But Judge Taylor told Chapman he could suspend her spell in custody due to various mitigating factors.

The court heard she had not re-offended since that fateful day in June 2019, with the realistic prospect of prison “looming over her”.

Prosecutors explained Chapman, Mr Evans and Samantha Clark had been drinking rum and listening to music in the early evening before Chapman launched the assault.

After a number of phone calls were made to the police, Chapman claimed “Mr Evans struck himself with the glass”, prosecutor Alex Upton explained.

“I’m taking you out of society at prime drinking time...”

But she made a no-comment interview before being charged with wounding with intent.

However, prosecutors earlier this year accepted a guilty plea before trial to unlawful wounding, a lesser charge.

Mr Evans, who suffered a “deep cut”, has since suffered anxiety, insomnia and concerns over the possibility of running into Chapman, the court heard.

Judge Taylor handed Chapman one year and nine months custody suspended for two years and a five-year restraining order.

The defendant could be seen standing in the dock taking deep breaths as the judge delivered his sentencing remarks.

He gave Chapman a nine-month curfew, banning her from leaving home between 8.30pm and 3am.

“I’m taking you out of society at prime drinking time,” he said.

“Thank you, sir,” she replied.