Teen scarred for life
A teenage girl has been scarred for life after a brutal attack outside a Wolverhampton pub which left her with horrific facial injuries and a fractured skull.
A teenage girl has been scarred for life after a brutal attack outside a Wolverhampton pub which left her with horrific facial injuries and a fractured skull.
Traumatised Emma Dainty today agreed to be photographed and videoed as detectives appealed for witnesses to the horrific attack to come forward.
The 18-year-old hairdressing student received 12 stitches to her forehead and nose after being knocked unconscious, possibly with a hockey stick, during the beating by a man outside the Queens Arms in Graiseley Row, Graiseley. She also suffered a blood clot in her ear, two black eyes and bruising to her shoulder and leg.
Her devastated mother Helen, of First Avenue, Low Hill, said she wanted to cry when she saw her daughter's injuries.
"It was brutal," she said. "When I saw her, her eyes were swollen shut and I could see her skull through the cut in her head. I welled up as soon as I saw her but tried to put a brave face on it for her sake. It's a horrible thought that the person who did this is still out there."
Emma was set upon in the early hours of Sunday after arguing with someone of a similar age in the pub.
She recalled: "The guy was only young and he followed me outside. Then he ran off and another car appeared and drove straight at me and my friend.
"We tried to get away but a different man who was much bigger got out and started hitting my friend.
"Then he pulled out this stick and hit me with it."
The teenager, who woke up in New Cross Hospital, is now having to take time off from her Wolverhampton College course to recover.
She said: "Doctors have told me I'll have a scar and I might have to consider plastic surgery in a year's time."
Det Const Neil Fellows, from Bilston Street police station, said officers had obtained CCTV footage: "There are a number of avenues we're pursuing in the investigation but we would like to hear from any witnesses." Anyone with information is urged to contact CID at Bilston Street on 0845 113 5000.
By Daniel Pountney
