Girl used designer stilettos to stab man in the eye
But student is spared jail
A STUDENT who stabbed a man in the eye with her designer stilettos was spared jail yesterday.
Shadiya Omar, 22, used one of her Christian Louboutins in the vicious attack on Justin Lloyd at the end of a night out.
Mr Lloyd, also 22, had jokingly tried to empty a bag of crisps over one of her friends as they waited for taxis home.
Omar responded by stabbing him in face. He had to pull the heel out of his eye socket and was left bloodied and with a broken facial bone.
Omar pleaded guity to unlawful wounding yesterday and was given an 18-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.
Mr Lloyd, who still suffers vision problems two years later, said: ‘I am not happy about the sentence. What she has done is a crazy thing – it is scary.’
Manchester Crown Court heard that the incident took place in the city centre in October 2014.
Omar’s friend had just knocked the bag of crisps from Mr Lloyd’s hand when she arrived to launch her shoe assault. ‘I felt the stiletto in my eye,’ said the victim, whose injury means he can no longer work as a labourer.
‘I was worried I would lose my sight – I was just in shock.’
He was treated at Manchester Royal Infirmary and later at Manchester Eye Hospital but still suffers with scarring, pain and psychological trauma.
The court heard Mr Lloyd, from Blakeley in Manchester, had lost his confidence and no longer wanted to socialise with friends. Jonathan Savage, prosecuting, said: ‘Looking in the mirror every day, he would be constantly having a reminder of the pain he has been suffering.
‘He was struck a single blow to the left eye. His next reaction was feeling a long object in front of his left eye, he had to pull it out.’’
In mitigation, David Morton said Omar had used ‘excessive selfdefence’ but described Mr Lloyd and his friends as ‘intimidating, very tall young men’. He said that Omar had taken off her shoes because her feet were hurting and had brandished the heel without aiming to make contact. She thought her friend was being harassed by the young men.
Judge Lindsey Kushner QC said Omar, of Whalley Range, Manchester, had acted spontaneously.
‘I know a shoe is a vicious weapon and you do know now clearly the heel is [too],’ she told the defendant. ‘I accept it was a moment of spontaneity – a spontaneous reaction. It was in a situation of hassling and ostentatious behaviour, as far as your friend was concerned – persistent irritation.’
Omar was ordered by the judge to complete six months of unpaid community work and to pay a £100 victim surcharge.
Christian Louboutin shoes are known for their distinctive red lacquer soles and towering heels and have become a celebrity favourite. Prices range from around £400 to almost £4,000.