Bloody face of mugged Apprentice star Elle, 25
FORMER TV Apprentice star Elle Stevenson has been left almost blind in one eye and needing plastic surgery for shattered cheekbones after she was mugged on a night out.
The 25-year-old was battered after a thief tried to steal her mobile phone.
Graphic photos taken at London’s St Thomas’ Hospital after the attack show Elle, who appeared in the BBC One series in 2015, battered and bleeding.
Elle – a construction company manager who lives near Windsor, Berks – was with a woman friend when she was mugged by two men near Charing Cross station on Sunday December 16.
Her friend retrieved the phone but the men attacked them as they left a McDonald’s later.
Elle said last night: “One man went behind me and pushed me and the next thing I knew my face went forward.
“He punched me and fractured my cheek and I have damage to my eye socket.
“My memory has been affected and I am getting confused which has left me feeling really vulnerable. My dad is having to drive me everywhere and I feel like a 12-year-old.”
Elle is currently being monitored by friends and family as doctors at St Thomas’ warned that she should not be left alone because of the head injury.
She added: “I rang the police a couple of days after and was told the file had been closed. I couldn’t believe it and asked why and they said that there was CCTV from a nearby McDonald’s but they did not have the time or resources for someone to look through an hour of it.
“It is horrific. If these men can beat a woman like this and get away with it. I feel very let down by the police.
“I can’t see out of that eye at the moment. I am having lots of X-rays and tests and being referred to consultants.”
She said she was considering making a complaint to the Metropolitan police.
A spokesman for the Met said: “The CCTV cameras in McDonald’s did not cover the area where the offences took place.
“Since the two women were unable to provide a time at which they entered McDonald’s and stated they would not be able to identify the suspects if they saw them again, officers spoke with the victim and explained that there was insufficient likelihood of suspects being identified to warrant analysis of around 90 minutes of CCTV footage from McDonald’s.
“Any new information will be investigated.” Shock...bloodied Elle Stevenson in hospital after the mugging and in her Apprentice days