Vicious thug kneed woman so hard she can no longer go to the toilet properly
A thug viciously kneed a woman on a Halloween night out in an attack which left her unable to use the toilet.
Jade King left the woman with "life-changing" injuries in the prolonged and brutal beating outside the pub in Warrington, Cheshire, in 2021. The 25-year-old walked free from court on Friday after pleading guilty to common assault, as well as a charge of witness intimidation after it was heard King had also threatened the woman a month after the attack saying, "you won't make it out of the courtroom".
King, from Warrington, had followed the victim after bumping into her at a pub in the town on the October 31 night out, Liverpool Crown court heard. After ringing the victim, King was told to "stop calling", prosecutor Joan Maxwell said.
The exchange saw King accuse the victim - who has not been named - of "taunting" her, Liverpool ECHO reports. King then confronted the woman, hurling abuse and punching her above the eye.
Ms Maxwell told the court: "[The victim] fell to the floor and the defendant also fell to the floor. They were described as lying next to one another. The defendant then hit [the victim] again to the side of the head and [the victim] hit back."
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King avoided jail after admitting common assault and witness intimidation (Liverpool Echo)
King had followed the victim after bumping into her at a pub in the town (Liverpool Echo)Witnesses described how King kneed the victim in the vaginal area in what was called "an extremely hard blow", before she was hit again in the head. The attack later left the woman in hospital for 10 days after it was discovered she couldn't properly pass urine.
Since the traumatic incident, she has had to be fitted with a catheter bag and developed a stutter - a symptom which has been associated with PTSD, the court heard.
Around a month after the assault, King followed the victim around Warrington town centre, threatening her. The court heard she said to the victim: "I am going to kill you. You're not going to make it out of the courtroom. You don't know who you are messing with."
King then proceeded to throw more abuse at the woman before calling her a "p*** bag". In a victim impact statement, read out by Ms Maxwell, the woman said she is now living with a body that is "not functioning correctly" and is now depressed.
The victim said she feels "tired all the time and alone", and has been unable to work due to her urological problems having instead to rely on her mum for many things. The victim said she now has "constant fear, panic, and anxiety".
Jim Smith, defending, said King suffered from several mental health and medical conditions, which she has recently sought help for. Mr Smith said: "At the time of the incident, the defendant was suffering a number of issues that impacted her psychology."
In mitigation, the court heard King had suffered trauma in her formative years and was a victim of abuse. Mr Smith said the 25-year-old was "deeply sorry" for her actions and she had a "realistic prospect of rehabilitation".
King admitted charges of common assault and witness intimidation. She was sentenced to 34 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months. She was also ordered to pay £500 in victim compensation and a restraining order prohibiting King from contacting the victim was granted for five years.
Sentencing King, District Judge John McGarva, said: "For the assault, this is a very serious matter in its own right. Everyone was trying to have a good night out and have a good time. You were drunk and this is an aggravating factor [...] this is because it takes away the barrier to stop misbehaving.
"This was a prolonged attack which affected the victim on physical level [...] and has long-lasting implications for a young woman and far-reaching implications which has impacted her and caused her to be self-consciousness going out. This was a significant assault."
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He added that King "compounded" her crime further by intimidating the victim after the assault, he added: "You could have walked away and not said anything, but you did not."
The judge said he was satisfied there was a prospect for rehabilitation in the case of King. He also said he took into consideration the mitigation put forward and her guilty plea into consideration when sentencing.
Judge McGrava also addressed the victim directly in court and said: "Thank you for showing such dignity in the courtroom today."
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