BEAUTY BOSS’S HORROR STILETTO ATTACK
Jealous thug assaulted hotel guest with Louboutin after she chatted to her boyfriend
A JEALOUS beautician launched a frenzied stiletto heel attack on a student while high on a cocktail of booze and cocaine.
Amy Henderson, from Glasgow, who specialises in improving women’s appearance, left her 22-year-old victim facially scarred and emotionally traumatised.
She repeatedly bashed Chloe Goddard on the forehead with the long pointed heel of one of her expensive black Christian Louboutin shoes after knocking her to the ground.
Recorder Martine Snowdon told Liverpool Crown Court yesterday: “You pushed her to the floor, got on top of her and repeatedly used that stiletto over and over to hit her face in your frenzy.
“It only came to an end when others intervened to pull you off her, otherwise you would have carried on.
“She is lucky she only has the injuries she has – it could have been much worse, given they were directed to her face.” The court heard the blows were perilously close to Chloe’s eyes and, nearly 10 months on, the scars to her forehead and eye brow are still visible. Her injuries included four 1cm lacerations to her forehead.
Henderson, 28, who runs her own hairdressing and aesthetics business, assaulted Chloe in January.
Prosecutor Derek Jones said Chloe and her boyfriend had booked an overnight stay at the Inside Hotel in Liverpool’s Old Hall Street. Henderson was also staying there with her boyfriend.
At about 2am, Chloe left her hotel room to go outside, coincidentally at the same time as Henderson’s boyfriend.
While outside the pair began talking. He asked to borrow her mobile phone and she let him.
CCTV footage then showed Henderson arriving and a conversation talking place for a couple of minutes.
Mr Jones said: “At one point we see the defendant hitting her boyfriend and we see there is clearly an element of jealousy. “She has put two and two together and made five, thinking something was going on between Miss Goddard and her boyfriend.”
Chloe moved to go back in but Henderson blocked her path and a struggle started between the pair.
Mr Jones said Chloe was then pushed to the floor and struck about 10 times with the stiletto heel. Photographs taken at hospital showed about five injuries to her face.
Henderson left the scene and police saw her walking around looking distressed with a scratch on her face. They asked if she was OK then realised she had been involved in an assault.
When interviewed, Henderson said she had drunk a bottle of prosecco and taken cocaine. She said she could not exactly remember what had happened.
The judge sentenced her to eight months’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, and ordered her to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work. She also has to pay £1000 compensation to Chloe and had to surrender the shoes.
Henderson’s solicitor, Paul Lewis, told the court his client has two cautions for drugs possession and has since been dealt with at a Scots court for a police obstruction charge.
He added that Henderson runs her own business and described her as “a determined and strong young woman”.
But he said she did not always behave appropriately after taking drink, adding: “She made a series of misjudgments.”
Recorder Snowdon said Henderson had attacked the victim “for inexplicable reasons that could only be borne out of drunken jealousy”.
She said the beautician had “lost control” while under the influence of drink and drugs and used a weapon.
Ms Snowdon accepted Henderson had acted out of character and had demonstrated some insight and regret.
Henderson, wearing a pair of £750 white Balenciaga trainers, left court and got into a white BMW, driven by an unaccompanied male. The car was parked in a disabled bay near the building.