UK’s youngest lotto winner had her head ‘ kicked in like a football’ by female thugs
BRITaIn’s youngest lottery winner had her ‘head kicked in like a football’ by two women.
Callie Rogers, who won £1.9million at the age of 16, was set on by the pair when she returned to her boyfriend’s home after a night out.
marie hinde, 38, and her then partner Jade Quayle, 27, left her unconscious and covered in blood. They later boasted that they had acted like wild animals.
miss Rogers, whose face has been permanently disfigured, was in Carlisle Crown Court yesterday to see the pair given lengthy jail sentences.
Tim Evans, prosecuting, said the 31year-old had returned alone to the house in Whitehaven and was followed inside by hinde and Quayle, who had been dogsitting for her boyfriend.
‘They came at her and dragged her around the room like a rag doll,’ he added. ‘Both of them were kicking her repeatedly.
‘she could feel them kicking her face and her head. she cannot recall the defendants leaving and believes that she blacked out.’
Following the assault hinde bragged to her boss at a taxi firm, saying: ‘Well I battered her, I use her head as a football. We attacked like wild animals.’
The court heard that she claimed she had assaulted miss Rogers after hearing her boast about her lottery fortune. she said started after being the bigheaded attack: saying: ‘ she “I’ve won the lottery, I’ve had more money pass through my hands than you will have in a life time”. I told her to shut up. Then she said personal things about me and I walloped her right in the face.’
andrew Ford, defending, said mother-of-three Quayle was led astray by her former girlfriend hinde. ‘ she was an unwilling participant,’ he added.
‘she was under the spell of the older, more violent principal defendant.’
The two women admitted the assault that took place in the early hours of July 2 last year. hinde, who also pleaded guilty to intimidating a witness, was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison and Quayle was sentenced to one year and nine months. sentencing the pair, Judge James adkin said: ‘This was a violent and sustained attack. You struck blows to Callie Rogers’ head and face from your fists and feet. You said you acted like animals. That is an accurate description. ‘This was a cowardly attack on a defenceless young woman. It was an attack in a house which she considered her own home.’ miss Rogers, who is a mother of three, suffered a broken nose in the assault and was left blinded for 48 hours. In a victim impact statement read to the court, she said she suffers from panic attacks and was too scared to go into the centre of Whitehaven for fear of bumping into her attackers.
she was working as a Co- op checkout girl and living in foster care when she won £1.87million in 2003.
But within a decade she had frittered all the money away – splashing out £ 250,000 on cocaine, £300,000 on designer clothes and thousands on breast enlargements.
she also gave at least £500,000 to family and friends, later complaining that ‘false people’ were using her. she eventually became so depressed that she attempted suicide twice.
But now she is in a steady relationship and lives in a £400-amonth rented house in Workington where she acts as a full-time carer for her six-year- old disabled son Blake.