{"id":125368,"date":"2021-05-17T17:57:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=125368"},"modified":"2021-05-17T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:57:57","slug":"thug-glassed-disabled-woman-leaving-huge-shard-in-neck-as-she-defended-pub-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/thug-glassed-disabled-woman-leaving-huge-shard-in-neck-as-she-defended-pub-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Thug glassed disabled woman leaving huge shard in neck as she defended pub staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

A disabled young woman was almost killed after a thug smashed a pint glass in her face for trying to protect pub staff, a court was told.<\/p>\n

Lucy Nobile, 20, was "scarred for life" when an eight-inch piece of glass tore into her neck – just 5mm from her carotid artery.<\/p>\n

The community volunteer, who has the rare genetic eye condition Stargardt disease, which can lead to severe loss of vision, also suffered deep cuts to her lip, chin and cheek, and popped blood vessels in her eye during the attack.<\/p>\n

James Booth, 29, admitted downing seven pints and two shots at the Hole in the Wall in Colchester, Essex, before launching into the unprovoked assault.<\/p>\n

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Ipswich Crown Court heard how the attack had left Lucy "fearful of making contact with people at all".<\/p>\n

Speaking outside court, Lucy said: "I was just chatting to a friend of mine and the next minute I had glass hanging out of my face.<\/p>\n

"He hit me with a glass but made sure he tipped it upside down so the heavy end connected. At first I didn\u2019t know what was going on because of the adrenaline.<\/p>\n

"It was only when I touched my face and I couldn\u2019t reach my skin because of all the shards of glass that I knew something was wrong.<\/p>\n

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"After that I can\u2019t remember much as I passed out due to blood loss and concussed myself by hitting my head off the floor.<\/p>\n

"I had the length of the Fosters glass in my neck \u2013 it went in four inches."<\/p>\n

She added: "At first [the attack] left me with such hatred and anger towards the world, it was so hard to even comprehend as it happened in my hometown, in my local pub, where I drank.<\/p>\n

"It was such a surprise, I\u2019ve never met this man before in my life. It was awful as it wasn\u2019t just traumatic to me, someone managed to get hold of my dad and he came to the scene and saw an eight-inch shard of glass hanging out of my neck and blood spurting in the air.<\/p>\n

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