Two sisters who attacked a wedding guest have been convicted of causing her grievous bodily harm.

Lindsey Sandra Rose Evans, aged 28, was jailed for 18 months, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to pay her victim, Samantha Robbins, £1,500 in compensation.

Evans’ sister, part-time beautician and mother of three Amie Victoria Gutteridge, 32, was jailed for 15 months, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to pay Miss Robbins £400 in compensation.

The pair, both of Heol y Bedw, Henllan, Llandysul, had denied assaulting Miss Robbins causing her grievous bodily harm.

A jury at Swansea Crown Court had heard how violence flared at the wedding reception of Miss Robbins’ brother, Ben, held at the Ceridwen centre near Drefach Felindre on 1 September, 2012.

Miss Robbins, then a student nurse, had been dancing inside a tepee style tent.

Evans thought that her boyfriend, and now husband, Neil Evans, had had a relationship with Miss Robbins, even though it wasn’t true.

Outside the tepee Gutteridge began pointing her finger at Miss Robbins and Evans swore at her.

Evans pushed her to her chest and then hit her in the face. Both women then grabbed her hair and pulled her to the ground.

Miss Robbins fell down a grass bank and Evans followed, still punching her.

Gutteride then kicked Miss Robbins “a number of times” while Evans held her down.

Guests and relatives intervened and the women were separated.

Miss Robbins suffered a fractured wrist, cuts, bruising and a damaged tooth, and months later still required surgery to damaged ligaments in her arm.

The court heard she was now a nurse in a hospital’s accident and emergency department but was off work after yet another operation to repair the damage inflicted by Evans and Gutteridge.

Dyfed Thomas, the barrister representing Evans, said she had already suffered some punishment by being made to pay £5,000 towards her defence costs, which she would not now get back because of the guilty verdicts.

The judge, Mr Recorder Peter Griffiths, said the offending had been serious, involving two onto one and kicking.

The attack, he added, had had serious consequences for Miss Robbins who still suffered the effects of the injuries sustained.

But both Evans and Gutteridge were of previous good character and had not offended since.

Both defendants agreed to meet the compensation orders within six months.