Two brassy blondes pounced on a woman ‘like vultures’, using a stiletto heel to maim her face for daring to question a dirty bathroom at a house in Wigan.
Hard faced Janet Atherton, 50 and 52-year-old Jacqueline Phillips pounced on the victim after she told them she had tried to unblock a toilet which had become messy during a New Year’s Eve house party.
During the catfight in the kitchen of the property in Wigan, Greater Manchester, Phillips pointed at the woman, 59, and yelled: “Who do you think you are?”
Atherton was then said to have, ‘totally flown off the handle’ and pulled the victim’s hair and started to scratch her face and kick her head.
Phillips joins the fracas and as the victim was trying to defend herself she felt a blow to the side of her face, as the heel of Atherton’s stiletto became lodged in her left cheek.
The victim had blood pouring down her face and was screaming at them for mercy before her tormentors stopped and said: ”You deserved it.”
The unnamed victim pleaded her case and said she had only said that the toilet was dirty before she grabbed her handbag and fled.
She later called a friend for help and police were called.
The victim is now scarred for life as a result of the attack.
LIFE-CHANGING: The victim’s injuries will scar her for life
Today Atherton, of Redbrook Road, Lower Ince, Wigan, was jailed seven years after was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
Phillips, of Bolton Road, Aspull, Wigan, was jailed for two years after being convicted of the lesser offence of wounding.
Liverpool Crown Court was told the attack occurred on the evening December 31 last year, after the victim met a friend at The Millstone Pub for New Year celebrations.
Her friend was already there with Atherton, Phillips and another woman when she arrived.
After an hour in the pub, they left around 11.30pm and moved to another pub to see in the New Year and from there Phillips invited them back to her house.
On the way home they had some music on in the 59-year-old woman’s car and the mood appeared to be relaxed.
They got to Phillips’s house where they had a drink and put the radio on to listen to the bells of Big Ben chiming in 2014 – and the victim’s friend left to pick up her partner.
The violence occurred when the victim went to the bathroom and a couple of minutes later came back to tell Phillips that the toilet was messy and said she had tried to unblock it and clean it.
Detective Constable Claire Hughes from Greater Manchester Police said: “These two women acted like vultures, and viciously attacked an innocent women who they had invited back to Phillips’s house.
“They set upon her because she dared to criticise the cleanliness of the bathroom.
“The victim was so scared she feared for her own life and thought they were going to kill her, she had blood dripping down her face.
“When they eventually stopped she managed to call her friend who took her to hospital and called the police.
“These two women are now where they belong, behind bars and I hope today’s sentence means their victim can move on with her life knowing justice has been done.”
Images courtesy of GMP, with thanks.
