A booze-fuelled mum behaved like a ‘wild animal’ during a brutal attack on two strangers outside a city centre takeaway.

Codece Carne went ‘absolutely berserk’ and used her high heels as a weapon following a row with two women at Hatty’s on Deansgate.

She broke one woman’s nose and repeatedly assaulted another in the early hours of the morning, Manchester Crown Court heard.

A judge said Carne’s reaction to ‘limited’ provocation was ‘that of a wild animal released from its cage’. Judge Paul Lawton warned Carne that had it not been for her role as a single mother and a carer for her own mother, she would have been locked up.

Prosecuting, Ellie-Louise Fradley said that the incident unfolded after midnight on August 7, 2023, at Hatty’s takeaway on Deansgate. Jacqui Millward, then 36, and Chelsie Minshall, 25, had visited the takeaway on their way home from a night out.

Carne, 32, was with a friend outside the takeaway, and Ms Millward thought that Carne was ‘laughing at her’, the court heard. Ms Millward went outside to speak with her. Ms Minshall followed, and kicked Carne’s friend’s food from out of her hands, onto the floor.

Ms Minshall warned Ms Millward to ‘watch out for her shoes’, as Carne took off her high heeled shoes and ‘hit Ms Millward over the head’ with one of them.

The melee then moved inside the takeaway. Carne punched Ms Minshall to the head ‘several times’, and grabbed her hair causing her to fall to the floor.

Carne kicked Ms Millward, causing her to fall. She then grabbed hold of Ms Minshall’s hair, pulling her up to a seated position, then punching her to the back of her head.

Carne grabbed Ms Millward’s hair and pushed her back to the floor. Staff from the takeaway intervened, while a heated argument continued between the trio.

Blood could be seen on the floor. But Carne, who the judge said had consumed an 'industrial' amount of alcohol, continued hitting Ms Minshall, who grabbed hold of the defendant’s hair. The fight was stopped after police arrived. Ms Minshall suffered a black eye, and had some of her hair ripped out.

But Ms Millward broke her nose in two places, and requires surgery. She also has permanent scarring on her face.

In a statement read to the court on her behalf, she said: “This attack has left me a different person than I was. I feel like people look at me and treat me differently due to the scarring on my face. I struggle to breathe through my nose. I struggle to sleep at night.”

Defending, Anthony Horsfall said that Carne wanted to express her ‘sincere apologies’ to her victims. He said she is a single mother who has never been in trouble before.

He said her behaviour was out of character and that she takes ‘full responsibility’ for it. “You brutally assaulted Jacqui Millward and Chelsie Minshall,” Judge Paul Lawton said. “There was some degree of provocation here. But the reaction was that of a wild animal released from its cage. You went absolutely berserk.

“You used your shoe as a weapon. If you had not been a single mother, and not responsible for your mother’s care, I would be sending you straight to Styal prison now.

“I have to ask whether I am going to inflict that upon two children. Whether you are ultimately separated from them now is in your hands.”

Carne, of Ascension Road, Salford, pleaded guilty to two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. She was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to carry out 30 rehabilitation activity requirement days.