Thugs nearly left me blind
She’s seriously injured in street attack
A FORMER star of The Apprentice was almost blinded in one eye after being viciously mugged on a night out.
Elle Stevenson, 25, was battered and punched in the face as two thugs tried to snatch her mobile phone.
She suffered a badly cut eye and shattered cheek bones and needed plastic surgery.
Elle – who appeared in series 11 of the show three years ago – was attacked near Charing Cross station after a night out with a pal in central London.
But she claims police will not be following up on the mugging because they don’t have the resources to trawl through CCTV.
She said: “It is horrific. If these men can beat a woman like this – innocent girls on a night out – and get away with it.
“They battered me. One man went behind me and pushed me and the next thing I knew my face went forward and was met with two punches. I was smacked squarely in the face.
“He punched me on my cheek and fractured my cheek and I have damage to my eye socket. I can’t see out of that eye and I have to wait for all the swelling to go down before doctors will be able to see if my eyesight has been affected permanently.
“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.”
Police admit there is “insufficient likelihood of suspects being identified to warrant analysis of around 90 minutes of CCTV footage”.
But they said any new information on the incident on December 16 would be investigated.
Elle, of Windsor, Berkshire, was fired by Lord Sugar in week seven of the hit BBC show in 2015.