‘Tell cops if planning sex’
A MUM bites off her pal’s ear in a kebab shop fight – before staff save the severed part and stick it in the fridge ready to be reattached.
The CCTV footage also shows Victoria Burgess kicking Jenna Edwards as she lies bleeding in agony on the floor.
Jenna is now a “prisoner in her own home” with post-traumatic stress disorder, she told a court.
The pair, who had known each four years, fought after sharing a bottle of wine in a Wetherspoon pub and lager at another bar in the early hours of April 6.
They had decided to get food and walked past a homeless woman as they made their way to a kebab shop, said prosecutors
Burgess gave her bank card to her friend and told her to go and get cash to give to the woman.
But Jenna could not remember the pin and withdrew some of her own money.
The defendant had gone on to the kebab shop and ended up “screaming” at Edwards and Burgess A MAN with HIV has been called a “danger to women” by a judge and told to give police 24 hours’ notice before having sex.
Norman O’Neill, 44, must allow officers time to warn women about his condition.
It comes after he allegedly put “vulnerable” women at risk by failing to tell them he has HIV and having unprotected sex her friend about stealing some of her cash. As the pair fought on the floor, Burgess bit off half of Jenna’s ear.
At one point Jenna picked it up but dropped it in horror. The severed ear was then put in the fridge at the Newport city centre takeaway.
Jenna waited for five hours to be seen and opted to have 48-hour leech therapy to save the rest of her ear. Doctors managed to reattach it, but scarring now prevents Jenna wearing her hair up. The CCTV footage of the fight was described as “utterly sickening” by Judge Daniel Williams. Ms Edwards added that the ordeal has “changed her life completely”, saying: “She was my friend. Now I’ll never trust anyone.” Burgess, who has a two-year-old girl, admitted wounding with intent. The hearing had to be stopped on two occasions as she sobbed in the dock before she was sentenced to four-and-ahalf years in prison. with them. District Judge Peter Greenfield told Southampton magistrates: “He does present a danger to females in this city.”
O’Neill, of Southampton, faces up to five years’ jail if he breaks the four-year Sexual Risk Order, following a civil case brought by Hampshire Constabulary. He has not been convicted of any offence.