Girl jailed over stiletto blinding attack
Joanne Brown has been scarred for life after the vicious attack
A pregant teenage girl in UK, who blinded a woman in one eye by stamping on her face with a stiletto heel, has been sentenced to 33 months in jail.
Amy Leigh Smith, 18, was jailed by the Liverpool crown court on Monday after she admitted the assault left Joanne Brown, 34, scarred for life after the attack at Pada Lounge Wigan, Greater Manchester, in May 2009.
"When I look in the mirror now all I see is a freak," said Brown, a mental health worker.
She said Smith's savage, unprovoked attack on the nightclub dance floor destroyed her sight, her looks, her relationship with her boyfriend - and her dreams for the future.
"Amy Smith was a thug who became an animal because she had too much alcohol in a bar she was too young to be drinking in.
"She has left me a broken woman. I have lost the person I used to be forever."
Such was the force of the attack, Brown's eye socket was smashed into 16 pieces, her cheekbone broke and both her jaw and skull were fractured.
The optic nerve in her left eye was severed, blinding her permanently. Brown said: "My face has been reconstructed but it will never be the same."
Smith is expecting a baby boy next month and it has also been reported that the father of the baby is also in jail for an anti-social behaviour offence.
Amy Leigh Smith has been jailed for 33 months
Judge Ian Trigger of the Liverpool crown court said Smith's unprovoked assault was typical of the violent, drink-fuelled outrages committed almost nightly across Britain.
He said: "Our towns and city centres are becoming, for decent law-abiding people, no-go areas.
"And the sole reason is the consumption by young people, women as well as men, of excessive quantities of alcohol."
The judge said he was stunned to learn the Pada Lounge was allowed to open until 6am on weekends.
He added: "It beggars belief why the local authority permits places such as that to remain open until an hour of the day when people are starting to get up."
He told Smith : "Because of some imagined slight, you stamped with your high-heeled foot not once but twice on a defenceless victim."
"It was an act which had horrendous consequences which will be with her for the rest of her life."
"Society is becoming increasingly fed up with the boorish and drunken antics of people such as yourself.
Source: Agencies
Published Feb 8 2011
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